Tom made a shiv out of the handle of a toothbrush.
Source: tatoeba (10792469)
Shiv
/ʃɪv/
Synonyms for "shiv" (4 found)
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5 translations across 5 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- steken verb (stab)
Finnish
1 entries- puukottaa verb (stab)
French
1 entries- suriner verb (stab)
Italian
1 entries- accoltellare verb (stab)
Russian
1 entries- пырну́ть зато́чкой verb (stab)
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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