shiv

  1. Noun.  A knife. Usually associated with a makeshift instrument fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
  2. Noun.  A woody by-product from processing flax or hemp.
  3. Noun.  (computing) A shim, i.e. a small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
  4. Verb.  To stab someone with a shiv.
  5. Verb.  By extension, to stab someone with anything not intended as a stabbing weapon.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.