Thread: The Oldie Comp No 146 'Am I Alone in Thinking?' by 13 January
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Unread 01-02-2012, 05:41 PM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is offline
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What, if anything, is shanking?
In U.S. slang, a shank is a prisoner's homemade knife -- a sharpened toothbrush handle or some such -- and shanking is stabbing someone with same.
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