One who steals or plagiarises other's
work and tries to
pass it off as their own. Worse is that they first try to convince someone else to
pass it off to see if they get caught, and if not, then they go ahead and use the content.
"So what did that shanky
guy get for the programming assignment?"
or
"Did you write that
code yourself?"
"No, I did a shanky and stole it off the
net"