shank

The Five-Pocket Tote has classic denim details such as belt loops, shank buttons and bar tack stitching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

There, workers methodically dismantle carcasses into primal cuts: chuck, rib, loin, flank, shank.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024

Former world number one Woods carded five birdies and five bogeys, ending the first day in California with a bogey after firing a surprise shank far to the right on the 18th fairway.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2024

That shank was a shocker, and perhaps more concerning was Woods saying his back was acting up int the final hour, leading to the shank.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

“Fire loses air,” said Smithy, lecturing as he pulled a strip of meat from the lamb shank and dipped it in yogurt.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

He lines up the drop-goal - and shanks it.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

Frontier offers wild game options, including a venison cheese steak, smoked and braised elk shanks and BBQ boar mac and cheese.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2024

Twenty-five of the nails were headless and deliberately bent at right angles; the others were complete roundheaded nails with the shanks twisted multiple times.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 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

“You’re with me the rest of today—we need to figure things. Tomorrow, the Slammer. Then you’re Minho’s, and I want you to stay away from the other shanks for a while. Got it?”

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

If not, it will be the biggest miss since Diana Ross shanked her try from the penalty spot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

That shanked drop-goal as a relative kid, the injury that took him out of the game early a year later, made all the more painful because Scotland won.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

A limping Evans had shanked a late drop-goal and Leinster hung on to win.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

The Bruins drive lasted just four plays before their punter, Brody Richter, shanked his own kick, handing USC the ball at midfield.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

Kind of a stoop shouldered, hollow chested, thin shanked party, too.

From Torchy As A Pa by Sewell Ford

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