Usually means: Faulty, errant golf shot; frustrating.
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  1. shanker: Merriam-Webster
  2. Shanker, shanker: Wordnik
  3. shanker: Wiktionary
  4. Shanker, shanker: Dictionary.com
  5. Shanker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Shanker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. shanker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Shanker: Rhymezone
  9. Shanker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. shanker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. shanker: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Shanker: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shanker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (shanker)

noun:  One who shanks (in any of various senses).
noun:  One who shanks a golf ball.
noun:  One who glues the shank into a shoe.
noun:  A surname from Hindi.
noun:  Obsolete form of chancre. [(pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.]

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