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shäft, n anything long and straight; a stem; an arrow; a missile (esp fig); the main, upright, straight, or cylindrical part of anything; the part of a cross below the arms; the part of a column between the base and the capital; the rachis of a feather; the thill of a carriage on either side of the horse; a straight handle; a pole; a ray or beam of light; a rotating rod that transmits motion; a well-like excavation or passage; the penis (coarse slang); a woman’s body (purely as sexual object) (US coarse slang). — vt to have sexual intercourse with (a woman) (coarse slang); to dupe, swindle, treat unfairly (slang). — adj shaft’ed. — n shaft’er or shaft’-horse a horse harnessed between shafts. — n shaft’ing the action of the verb in either sense; a system of shafts. — adj shaft’less. — make a shaft or a bolt of it to venture and take what comes of it, the shaft and the bolt being the arrows of the longbow and the crossbow respectively.
"Jack was gonna go and party with us. Apparently he's one pure sonofabitch and went out with his girlfriend. It was one unforgiven shaft of his"
by Mike January 13, 2005
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"Shaft that Shafting Shafter"
"You MotherShafter"
"Oh Shaft. Shaft him to hell!"
"What did i do today? Shaft all"
"Wheres the Shafting Shaft?"
"He's just had a Shaft"
by plug in bby October 12, 2008
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Shaft

The lead character in the movie "Shaft". A slick, badass black dude who gets all the ladies and whups all the badguys.
They say that Shaft is a bad mutha-Shut yo mouth! I'm just talkin' 'bout Shaft! Then we can dig it!
by Vic Viper Mk. II April 4, 2004
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A word that is usually followed by the phrase "Can you dig it?"
by Zach G. October 30, 2003
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verb, to shaft.
To finger a girl while getting four fingers in.
Dude, I totally shafted this girl last night.
by nedsfriend November 10, 2010
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You may not be surprised, but I got the fuckin' shaft at work today. Nothing like working another 20 hr day.
by Ricky Roma October 25, 2003
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when a person ditches their friends for someone they think is more important
A.M.'s friends are being shafted because of her boyfriend she doesn't even like!
by Anonymous May 17, 2003
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