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shafted

shafted is the simple past and past participle of shaft.

Adjective

shafted (comparative more shafted, superlative most shafted)

  1. Fitted with a shaft.
  2. (axe, etc) Having a shaft (or handle) of a specified tincture, typically different from the head.
    • Arms Azure, a hart's head cabossed and attired or, between the attires a dirk ppr. shafted gules, point downwards.1907, The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly, page 169
    • […] a dexter cubit arm, in armour, ppr., garnished or, gules, cinctured with a bracelet, sa., holding a Danish battle-axe, proper, shafted gules, garnished or, for WOLRICH.1852, Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852, page 1287
  3. (slang) Cheated; screwed (screwed over); ripped off.

Meaning of shaft

Verb

shaft (third-person singular simple present shafts, present participle shafting, simple past and past participle shafted)

  1. (slang, transitive) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
    • Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
  2. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
  3. (slang, transitive) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
    • Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.
    Synonyms:
    Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have

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Forms of shafted

comparativemore shafted
superlativemost shafted

Words formed from shafted

Questions about shafted

What does shafted mean?
Shafted means fitted with a shaft.
What is shafted the simple past and past participle of?
Shafted is the simple past and past participle of shaft.
What part of speech is shafted?
Shafted is an adjective.

Words near shafted in the dictionary

  1. shaft encoder
  2. shaft encoders
  3. shaft furnace
  4. shaft furnaces
  5. shaft horsepower
  6. shafted
  7. shafter
  8. shafters
  9. Shaftesburian
  10. Shaftesbury
  11. Shaftesburyan

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