shiv

2 definitions • 4 examples

a knife or other sharp or pointed object used as a weapon, often one that is homemade:

Most often, shivs are used to conduct the business of gangs.

They still might stick a shiv in your abdomen.

to attack someone with a shiv:

Judith gets shivved in a drug deal.

The court was told that after knifing the teenager, the attacker taunted him, saying “What's it like being shivved?”