OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17763

shank

/ʃæŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pincho
An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
LBC's tryna blackball me / And tryna blame your boy for knife crime (Like, what?) / I don't use a shank, I got money in the bank / Man, I'd rather do a drive-by
One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner.
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