shank
shangk
- n a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- n the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- n cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- n cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- n cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- n the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- n lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
- n a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- v hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
- A shank! My God, we've hit another shank!' " Lefty's Fury.
- A safer design, used in Scandinavia, has a slender sensing tip, similar to the American, but then broadens out to a flat shank, thick enough to prevent too deep a penetration.
- Combining an old-fashioned escape story with a timely story of oil, lies and conspiracy in the government, Prison Break takes your sense of skepticism and plunges a shank into it.