Usually means: Homemade knife used in prisons.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word shiv:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. shiv: Merriam-Webster
  2. shiv: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shiv: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shiv: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shiv: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shiv, shiv: Wordnik
  7. Shiv, shiv: Wiktionary
  8. shiv: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shiv: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. shiv: Dictionary.com
  11. shiv: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Shiv (weapon), Shiv: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. shiv: Rhymezone
  14. shiv: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shiv: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shiv: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SHIV: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shiv, shiv: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SHIV, shiv: Urban Dictionary
  3. Shiv: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See shiving as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Shiv)

noun:  A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
noun:  A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
verb:  (transitive) To stab (someone) with a shiv.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
noun:  A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.

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