shanking

Verb

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

1. (Ulster, archaic) To travel on foot.

   Synonyms:

   pedestrianize, walk, ambulate, navigate, raik

2. (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
   • Casey: You're being too honest. You gotta... tell 'em what they want to hear. You gotta lie, dude.
     Sam: I can't lie. I'm bad at it and I don't like it. What's the point?
     Casey: Well, imagine if you didn't like your boss at work.
     Sam: I do. I like Bob.
     Casey: I know, that's why I said "imagine". If...2018, Mike Oppenhuizen, “Pants of Fire” (1:53 from the start), in Geeta Patel, director, Atypical, season 2, episode 4, spoken by Casey and Sam (Jack Haven (credited as Brigette Lundy-Paine) and Keir...

   Synonyms:

   jab, shiv, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride

3. (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.

   Synonyms:

   debag, depants

4. (transitive) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
5. (transitive, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
   • Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport
6. (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
   • the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off.1861, Charles Darwin, Cause of the variation of flowers

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