Theo Henderson's definitions

Shank

Shank (1)

A prison term that refers to a home made knife or dagger fashioned out of a regular object

Shank (2)

To shank- To stab or slash someone with a shank

Shanked (3)

A passed tense of shank (2). Could refer to either the speaker or the subject as the shanker

Dude, did you hear about the guy that got killed? He got shanked in prison with a tooth brush!

by Theo Henderson May 3, 2006