Word.ws English Dictionary

shank it

shank it verb: to run away; to leg it.

Verb

shank it (third-person singular simple present shanks it, present participle shanking it, simple past and past participle shanked it)

  1. (slang) To run away; to leg it.

Forms of shank it

third-person singular presentshanks it
present participleshanking it
past participleshanked it
pastshanked it

Questions about shank it

What does shank it mean?
Shank it means to run away; to leg it.
What part of speech is shank it?
Shank it is a verb.
What is the past tense of shank it?
The past tense of shank it is shanked it.

Words near shank it in the dictionary

  1. Shaniquah
  2. Shaniquas
  3. Shaniqwa
  4. Shanita
  5. shank
  6. shank it
  7. shank's mare
  8. shank's pony
  9. shank-bone
  10. shank-bones
  11. shank-iron

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shank it (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shank it.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shank_it. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.