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▪ I. shiv, n.|ʃɪv|
Also shive.
= chive n.3 Also attrib.
1915N.Y. World 9 May (Suppl.) 14/3 Shive, a razor. 1926J. Black You can't Win (1927) vii. 87 ‘Better get busy with your ‘shive’, kid.’ I started cutting on the side opposite the boarding house. 1926Clues Nov. 162/2 Shiv, a knife. 1930Sat. Even. Post 5 Apr. 46/1 Those he does not shoot he sticks with his shiv—which is a knife. 1951F. Brown Murder can be Fun viii. 120, I won't use no shiv. I'll take him apart with my bare hands. 1959‘M. Ainsworth’ Murder is Catching vi. 72 Has he any criminal connections{ddd}could he get hold of shiv-boys, for instance? 1959H. Hobson Mission House Murder xiii. 88 He held a white-handled open razor... ‘'Strewth!’ he said, ‘a shiv!’ 1972Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 17 Feb. b. 11/5 The guards even planted a ‘shive’—a tableknife—in McKinney's cell. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy ix. 89, I never heard of the K.G.B. using a shiv artist who hit the wrong target, and..let them grab the knife.
▪ II. shiv, v.|ʃɪv|
Also shive.
= chive v.
1926[see jam n.1 1 b]. 1959‘M. Ainsworth’ Murder is Catching xv. 163 The boys been shiving you? 1967‘E. Queen’ Face to Face xxx. 136 ‘When was that?’ ‘The night they found Spotty shivved.’ 1980J. Wainwright Venus Fly-Trap 165 Two guys. So much hatred—eh? One shivs the other. |