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{
"ref": "2016, Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald, Crooked Lane Books, page 6",
"text": "Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stab someone with a shiv."
],
"links": [
[
"stab",
"stab"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɪv/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪv"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-shiv.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/34/En-au-shiv.ogg/En-au-shiv.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/En-au-shiv.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shiv.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shiv.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shiv.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shiv.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shiv.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "shank"
},
{
"word": "chib"
},
{
"tags": [
"Geordie",
"Scotland"
],
"word": "chiv"
},
{
"word": "shive"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stab",
"word": "steken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stab",
"word": "puukottaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stab",
"word": "suriner"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stab",
"word": "accoltellare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pyrnútʹ zatóčkoj",
"sense": "stab",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пырну́ть зато́чкой"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pyrnútʹ",
"sense": "stab with non-stabbing weapon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пырну́ть"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Green's Dictionary of Slang"
],
"word": "shiv"
}
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