Tom made a shiv out of the handle of a toothbrush.
Source: tatoeba (10792469)
Shiv
//ʃɪv//
Synonyms for "shiv" (32 found)
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Translations
15 translations across 7 languages.
Dutch
2 entries- mes noun (knife)
- steken verb (stab)
Finnish
2 entries- omatekoinen veitsi noun (knife)
- puukottaa verb (stab)
French
2 entries- surin noun (knife)
- suriner verb (stab)
Italian
1 entries- accoltellare verb (stab)
Portuguese
3 entries- estoque noun (knife)
- estocar verb (stab with non-stabbing weapon)
- estoquear verb (stab with non-stabbing weapon)
Russian
3 entries- зато́чка noun (knife)
- пырну́ть verb (stab with non-stabbing weapon)
- пырну́ть зато́чкой verb (stab)
Spanish
2 entries- chuzo noun (knife)
- pincho noun (knife)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Prison guards found a shiv in Tom's cell.
Source: tatoeba (10792470)
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.
Source: wiktionary
Mr. Simpson finished “If I Did It” with the help of a ghostwriter, but after a public outcry, the book was shelved, and the woman who had agreed to publish it lost her job. “Basically, I got the shiv,” Ms. Regan said in a phone interview this week.
Source: wiktionary
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