chiv

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪv/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪv

Noun

chiv (plural chivs)

  1. (slang) Alternative form of shiv (“a knife”).
  2. The scooped-out portion at the end of a stave used to make a cask, where the croze will be incised.
  3. A cooper's tool used to make that section.

Verb

chiv (third-person singular simple present chivs, present participle chivving, simple past and past participle chivved)

  1. (slang) Alternative form of shiv.
    • 2012, Vanessa Morgan, Murder and Crime Birmingham:
      […] he had heard Corkery say afterwards, 'It's me that chived him, see feel the knife, it's wet.'

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