English Dictionary

shiv

/ʃɪv/

noun

A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). / A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

I used a shiv to cut the rope.

意味（1）

A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).

It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks.

意味（2）

A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.