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shank

noun as in shaft

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

From BBC

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

From Salon

The brevity is, of course, a function of Joe Biden’s catatonic debate performance, ensuing Democratic panic and the president’s overnight replacement in the shank of summer by his vice presidential understudy, Kamala Harris.

This kind of ethical nihilism has been a rusty shank to the gut of consumer advocacy journalists the last few years.

From Salon

The agnolotti right now is filled with a farce made from the pork shanks we have from the weekly hog delivery.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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