Meaning & use
Shived
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Past tense of the slang verb 'shiv': stabbed or wounded someone with a shiv, a makeshift knife.
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Prison guards reported that an inmate had been shived in the yard.
The character in the film gets shived during a botched robbery.
A note on using this word
Grew out of prison and street slang, where 'shiv' functions as both noun (the weapon) and verb (the act of stabbing with one).
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stabbedknifed
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