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Shanks shank

Spelling: [shangk]

IPA: /ʃæŋk/

Shanks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in Shanks (ahknss).

Definitions for Shanks

noun

1. Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
2. a corresponding or analogous part in certain animals.
3. the lower limb in humans, including both the leg and the thigh.
4. a cut of meat from the top part of the front (foreshank) or back (hind shank) leg of an animal.
5. a narrow part of various devices, as a tool or bolt, connecting the end by which the object is held or moved with the end that acts upon another object.
6. a straight, usually narrow, shaftlike part of various objects connecting two more important or complex parts, as the stem of a pipe.
7. a knob, small projection, or end of a device for attaching to another object, as a small knob on the back of a solid button, or the end of a drill for gripping in a shaft.
8. the long, straight part of an anchor connecting the crown and the ring.
9. the straight part of a fishhook away from the bent part or prong.
10. Music. crook1 (def 8).
11. Informal. the early part of a period of time: the latter part of a period of time:
12. the narrow part of the sole of a shoe, lying beneath the instep.
13. shankpiece.
14. Printing. the body of a type, between the shoulder and the foot.
15. Golf. a shot veering sharply to the right after being hit with the base of a club shaft.
16. the part of a phonograph stylus or needle on which the diamond or sapphire tip is mounted.
17. Jewelry. the part of a ring that surrounds the finger; hoop.

Idioms

1. shank of the evening, the main or best part of the evening:

verb (used with object)

1. Golf. to hit (a golf ball) with the base of the shaft of a club just above the club head, causing the ball to go off sharply to the right.

verb (used without object)

1. Chiefly Scot. to travel on foot. Compare shanks' mare.

Origin of Shanks

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English sc(e)anca; cognate with Low German schanke leg, thigh; akin to German Schenkel thigh, Schinken ham

Examples for Shanks

This plate is soldered to the shank of the screw-eye and the cleat is complete.

He's had just about time to make the trip on shank's mare by takin' short cuts.

The bloodthirsty Young Turks of Bohane bide their time, waiting in the shadows to shank and supplant their revelry-addled elders.

He's in the shank of his honeymoon as we stands chattin' yere.'

Next to the blade on the end of which is the cutting edge, is the shank, Fig. 65.

You see, the victim can slip up behind you on any given day and stick a shank in your ribs—or pay someone else to do it.

He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off.

If she got caught with a shank, they would up her custody level.

Everyone complains that Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray shank shots but stubbornly stick to the same strategy.

Seager writes about being threatened by a patient with a shank carved out of an eyeglass stem.