shanknoun [ C ]
uk/ʃæŋk/us/ʃæŋk/shank noun [ C ] (STRAIGHT PART)
a long, thin, straight part of particular objects, especially one that connects the end of a device or tool that you hold to the end of it that moves or does something:
the shank of a screwdriver
the shank of a key/nail
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Poles, rods, shafts and sticks
- bar
- billy club
- boathook
- bollard
- broomstick
- cane
- lightning conductor
- maypole
- pointer
- rod
- rung
- shaft
- shooting stick
- spoke
- stake
- telephone pole
- totem pole
- truncheon
- utility pole
- waddy
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shank noun [ C ] (LEG)
old-fashioned or humorous the leg of a person or animal, especially the part below the knee
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The leg
- Achilles tendon
- appendage
- appendicular
- crural
- cruris
- gastrocnemius
- gemellus
- hamstring
- haunch
- leggy
- peroneal
- peroneus
- pes anserinus
- piriformis
- popliteal
- subsartorial
- subtalar
- surae
- sural
- talocalcaneal
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The legs & feet of non-human animals
shankverb [ T ]
uk/ʃæŋk/us/ʃæŋk/in golf, to hit a ball with the wrong part of the golf club so that it goes in a direction that you did not intend it to go in:
Needing par at 18 to force a playoff, he shanked his approach shot from the bunker.
in ball games, to kick or hit a ball in an awkward way so that it goes in a direction that you did not intend it to go in:
Unfortunately he shanked the ball wide in front of an open goal.