Word.ws English Dictionary

shanks it

shanks it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shank it.

Meaning of shank 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.

Questions about shanks it

What is shanks it the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shanks it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shank it.

Words near shanks it in the dictionary

  1. Shankles
  2. shankless
  3. Shanklin
  4. Shanklins
  5. shanks
  6. shanks it
  7. shanks mare
  8. shanks pony
  9. shanks' mare
  10. shanks' mares
  11. shanks' nag

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shanks it (page history and authors); 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: “shanks it.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shanks_it. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.