1) Slang for a knife or any other small cutting/stabbing weapon, often homemade; think inmates with sharpened toothbrushes.
2) The act of utilising the aforementioned small cutting/stabbing weapon to cut/stab someone.

A shiv is a weapon made out of an commonplace object often in prison, also perhaps the origin of which is as a acronym a Self Honed Implement of Violence (SHIV).

COMMON TYPO ON PHONE AND MIS-PRONOUCAINTION OF SHIT

FREQUETLY SAID WHEN THE BAND

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a warm lovely Irish woman with a bad temper

to be stabbed with a sharp piecing instrument. i.e knife or screwdriver.

A Home Made Knife made out of Anything but metal. Not to be confused with a Shank (a home made knife made of metal).

Shivs are usually made of Glass, Wood, or Scrap Plastic

Shived- To be stabbed by a Shiv

A Shiv is a hand-crafted blade-like weapon used to stab fellow inmates in prison