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shiv; chiv; shivvie
noun
a homemade knife-like weapon, especially one fashioned in prison US, 1915
Almost certainly evolved from C17 “chive” (knife).- “You got a chiv?” he asked. I knew I didn’t have one but I fanned myself. “Musta left it in my box,” I said. He looked around again, then slipped me his. I didn’t look at it, but by its feel it must have been eight inches long. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 34, 1945
- And I don’t like you, and if you make a move for your shiv I’m going to beat the piss outa you. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 209, 1947
- Because they’s two of ’em and they got a shiv they’re the toughest mugs in the world. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 55, 1951
- “Let’s see the shiv,” he said. “The what?” “The pig-sticker, the switchblade, the knife.” — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 69, 1953
- There were wild Negro queers, sullen guys with guns, shiv-packing seamen, thin, non-committal junkies, and an occasional well-dressed middle-aged detective[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 131, 1957
- Teddy, I know where you’ve been, what you learned in there, how to make a shiv, how you settle your differences. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 63, 1985
- [Y]ou would drive a shiv into the zookeeper’s heart, so deep. — Howard Stern, Miss America, p. 301, 1995
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 104, 1996
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