What does "shiv" mean?

A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).

What is a synonym for "shiv"?

Common synonyms include: chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin.

//ʃɪv// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

1
A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). countable, slang
"It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks."
2
a knife used as a weapon wordnet
3
A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. uncountable

Verb

1
To stab (someone) with a shiv. slang, transitive
"Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower."
2
To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon. broadly, slang, transitive

Proper Noun

1
A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.
2
A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.
"'Hiya, Shiv. It's Bobby Hogan here.' Detective Inspector Bobby Hogan. She'd asked him before not to call her Shiv. A lot of people tried it. Siobhan, pronounced Shi-vawn, shortened to Shiv. When people wrote her name down, it turned into all sorts of erroneous spellings. She remembered that Fairstone had called her 'Shiv' a few times, attempting familiarity. She hated it, and knew she should correct Hogan, but she didn't."