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shivnanigans 

Based on Shivon Roy in HBO's Succession. Shivnanigans are a set of strategies and tactics that mix: fierce Tribalism, corporate power, carefully concealed white privilege, liberal feminism, tricksterism, open power exertion, concern for the victim of sexual assault (see Ep 9 season 2), threats, sticks and/or carrots. Shivnanigans are always carried out in extremely upscale settings while wearing impeccably timely, and never gauche, well-fitting fashion. Its a mixture of friendship and threats and care and coarseness that is only ineffective against the most seasoned opponents.
His shivnanigans made her think she was doing what she wanted, but she was really doing exactly what he wanted.
shivnanigans by Deadvegan November 10, 2021
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shinaenae 

To talk bad or smack about something or someone
Girlll, I hear you been talking shinaenae 'bout me,
shinaenae by Fadilatiddyz October 3, 2020
You're so shivnen right now!!
shivnen by sjfjejxjfdxj June 20, 2014
A shiv using specific cooking techniques made out of naan bread that can be used for defense but mainly used to perform a sneak attack on another person that can be lethal.
The inmate was charged for assault on another inmate using a "shivnan".
shivnan by trooperforlife February 3, 2021
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026