shank

He said he did not see a handle and compared its appearance to an improvised prison shank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

In its more standardized form across the journalism industry, this kind of ethical nihilism has been a rusty shank to the gut of consumer advocacy journalists the last few years.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024

A wild drive on the seventh and a shank out of a bunker at the next opened up the tournament.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

Woods couldn’t recall the last time he hit a cold shank — basically hitting the ball anywhere except on the clubface — except for making some imaginative flop shots around the green.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Resting on an upturned crate or school desk would be the shank of a horse or a side of dog or cat, a box of salt, a licorice stick, an onion, a potato or two.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

Smith himself had two fluffed drop-goal attempts, both uglier shanks than Ford’s effort.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024

That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Levine suggests using the mirepoix in braised lamb shanks with shelled peas and lettuce.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023

“Our table never just had Vietnamese food — we would have spring rolls with fish sauce and then lamb shanks, Lebanese bread and hummus all on the same table,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

“Gaily. And don’t let anyone fool you. I’m the real leader here, not the two geezer shanks upstairs. Me. You can call me Captain Gaily if you want.”

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

In a nervy start to the tie-break, Gauff shanked a second-serve return wide before snatching a backhand volley into the net.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Team-mate Alex Coles' mind went back to 2017 - Jonathan Davies' shanked kick, Owen Farrell's long pass and Elliot Daly sliding in for another galloping, grandstand finale.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Saturday seemed well on its way to a different sort of conclusion, when the Irish shanked a 31-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025

The first came when Brody Richter shanked a punt for 16 yards late in the first quarter, allowing the Huskies to take over at UCLA’s 36-yard line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2024

Parallel shanked twist drills are driven by chucks, while taper, shanked ones, are driven by sockets, such as in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

He is more likely to expire on the back nine of a golf course after shanking a par 5 off the tee than any man I’ve ever known.

From Salon ● May 15, 2025

And she wasn’t exactly confident after shanking both her tries in warmups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024

He told reporters on Thursday that he had been suffering with back spasms along with soreness in his surgically repaired leg after uncharacteristically shanking an approach on the 18th.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024

Whether improperly closing a door or shanking a kick in soccer, our brains tell us when we've made a mistake because these sounds differ from what we expect to hear.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2023

The next process is that of shanking, or attaching small metal loops, by which they are fastened to garments.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 by Charles Peters