the shaft

1. Originating in Old Europe during the Middle Ages, where burial space was often in short supply throughout many communities. To maximize use of space in many cemetaries, the dead were often buried in a 6 foot vertical shaft, rather than the usual horizontal grave position. The vertical position was considered less socially respectable. Thereafter the term began to mean poor treatment given to someone in such a way that demeans him or affirms second hand status as a citizen.

In communities that had active, but hidden, homosexual communities, the phrase took on a second meaning in double entendre, referring to the humiliating prospect of having to bend over, grab one's ankles, and recieve painful anal intercourse from someone who is overly aggressive and abusive.

When they fired Bob, they gave him the shaft.

by bucky buckmeister December 5, 2006

the shaft

Everything bad in life.

Often one gets the shaft, meaning that they were utterly screwed over in life.

Jerry always gets the shaft.

by steelman August 18, 2003

Shaft

1) An insult given to a person who acts like a pure bellend and you want to be subtle about it.

2) the stem of a penis

Patty: look at my new trackies, there well shiny my mummy bought them from JD

Cammy lad: your a fucking Shaft!!

by Cammy_lad June 11, 2009

A-shaft

1. when something exceedingly bad or negative happens to you, you respond by exclaiming "A-shaft!"

2. when you are forced into doing something you do not want to do, similar to forcedown

joe: i just got a 30% on my final, a car ran over my bike and my mother and two sister's are in the hospital.
bob: A-shaft! (or "that's an A-shaft")

by jake goldstein March 27, 2007

shafted

to get screwed over

Johnny was shafted by Natalie at Sam's party.

by dinosaur baby cat December 9, 2008

Shaft

1: Ripped off
2: The stem of the penis
3: Victim of a trick pulled by a friend
4: Treated like shit where you work
5: a long square tube that rises for stories by use of an elevator
6: a place where gold is mined

1: that dude shafted me, my 10$ action figure broke
2: I exercised my shaft for a while
3: My freind shafted me! now the TV's are showing me during my bout of racism and everyone thinks i'm a prick!
4: My boss shafted me, not to worry, he's shafting demons in hell
5: The elevator's cable broke and we were flying through the shaft, worst... day... EVER!
6: I mined 50 kgs of gold from my private shaft, i transformed them into 24-karat gold Loonies, there's so much, i do not know how much i have in Loonies

by your best idiot June 7, 2010

Shafted

a)when someone is "jipped"
b)when someone is shutdown or brushed off

"Want to go out with me?"
"No"
"Ooh! Shafted!"

by Minister of Eriador October 29, 2004