Usually means: Homemade knife used in prisons.
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  1. chiv: Merriam-Webster
  2. chiv: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Chiv, chiv: Wordnik
  4. chiv: Wiktionary
  5. chiv: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. chiv: Dictionary.com
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  8. chiv: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chiv, chiv, chiv, chiv: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chiv, chiv: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (chiv)

noun:  The scooped out portion at the end of a stave used to make a cask, where the croze will be incised.
noun:  A cooper's tool used to make that section.
noun:  Alternative form of shiv [A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).]
verb:  Alternative form of shiv [(transitive) To stab (someone) with a shiv.]

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