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
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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 10, 2009
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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 23, 2007
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To get screwed over.
I got shafted when I went to the mall to buy my clothes.
by Anonymous October 20, 2003
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1. A black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks.
2. The man that would risk his neck for his brother man
3. The cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about.
4. A Bad Mother--
5. A complicated man, no one understands him but his woman.
6. John Shaft.
by B October 8, 2002
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to get screwed over
Johnny was shafted by Natalie at Sam's party.
by dinosaur baby cat November 20, 2008
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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
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