English Dictionary

shank

/ʃæŋk/

verb

(archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot. / (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade. / (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.

He shanks the ball into the rough.

意味（1）

(archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot.

意味（2）

(slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.

意味（3）

(slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.

意味（4）

(transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.

意味（5）

(transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.

Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.

the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off.

意味（7）

(transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).

The system is suitable for shanking all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers).

意味（8）

(shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.

I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.