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What does 'shank' mean to you?

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Originally posted by: NSFW
/cuddles up with Quintox

It's ok buddy. I am here for you.

<If Chris Hanson shows up, I am shanking your ass>
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To me, shank has always meant to pull someone's pants down from behind them. But it also means to stab someone in the back.

So which is it to you?
 
It's the metal/fiberglass/plastic support built into the arch of a shoe.
 
an improvised stabbing device made by inmates in a prison to kill one another. usually a sharpened toothbrush handle
 
Originally posted by: Quintox
Inspired by
Originally posted by: NSFW
/cuddles up with Quintox

It's ok buddy. I am here for you.

<If Chris Hanson shows up, I am shanking your ass>
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To me, shank has always meant to pull someone's pants down from behind them. But it also means to stab someone in the back.

So which is it to you?
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Can't we do both?
 
Originally posted by: lozina
an improvised stabbing device made by inmates in a prison to kill one another. usually a sharpened toothbrush handle
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This. If it's a knife I call it a stabbing. If it's something MacGuyver would create then it becomes a shanking.
 
If you are in prison, you do not stab someone with a knife. You shank them with a shiv.

What you refer to is known as "pantsing" someone.
 
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
It's the metal/fiberglass/plastic support built into the arch of a shoe.
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..that's what I thought. the rest of these guys are sissy rapist's and reprobaters.

 
Originally posted by: jagec
If you are in prison, you do not stab someone with a knife. You shank them with a shiv.

What you refer to is known as "pantsing" someone.
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Friends don't let friends shiv
 
definitely 'stabbing with knife' distantly followed by protected arch in a shoe. I had never heard it to mean 'pull down pants'
 
It always amazes me the degree to which my fellow man can pervert the local vernacular. I got into an argument with a friend the other day who insisted that motorbikes and motorcycles were two very different objects. In addition, he refused to acknowledge that bike can refer to either a motorcycle (or motorbike in his case) or a bicycle. I'll concede that a motorbike and motorcycle can be used interchangeably though they can carry different connotations. I would go as far as to prefer to refer to lighter built motorcycle, like a motocross bike or dirt bike, to be called motorbikes and thus motorbikes can be construed as being a subset of motorcycles. However, apparently there is supposed to be a clear distinction between the two that was so obvious that he could not find the words to express it other than to say that a motorbike is not a motorcycle and vice versa.
 
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
It always amazes me the degree to which my fellow man can pervert the local vernacular. I got into an argument with a friend the other day who insisted that motorbikes and motorcycles were two very different objects. In addition, he refused to acknowledge that bike can refer to either a motorcycle (or motorbike in his case) or a bicycle. I'll concede that a motorbike and motorcycle can be used interchangeably though they can carry different connotations. I would go as far as to prefer to refer to lighter built motorcycle, like a motocross bike or dirt bike, to be called motorbikes and thus motorbikes can be construed as being a subset of motorcycles. However, apparently there is supposed to be a clear distinction between the two that was so obvious that he could not find the words to express it other than to say that a motorbike is not a motorcycle and vice versa.
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you should shank him for being dumb.
 
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
It always amazes me the degree to which my fellow man can pervert the local vernacular. I got into an argument with a friend the other day who insisted that motorbikes and motorcycles were two very different objects. In addition, he refused to acknowledge that bike can refer to either a motorcycle (or motorbike in his case) or a bicycle. I'll concede that a motorbike and motorcycle can be used interchangeably though they can carry different connotations. I would go as far as to prefer to refer to lighter built motorcycle, like a motocross bike or dirt bike, to be called motorbikes and thus motorbikes can be construed as being a subset of motorcycles. However, apparently there is supposed to be a clear distinction between the two that was so obvious that he could not find the words to express it other than to say that a motorbike is not a motorcycle and vice versa.
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"Motorbike" is more British, but both are correct.

And "bike" certainly refers to both the powered and the unpowered kind. Does your friend even ride?
 
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