shank

The Five-Pocket Tote has classic denim details such as belt loops, shank buttons and bar tack stitching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

There, workers methodically dismantle carcasses into primal cuts: chuck, rib, loin, flank, shank.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024

A wild drive on the seventh and a shank out of a bunker at the next opened up the tournament.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

The dissection eventually led her to conclude that if you removed both the heel and the hard inner shank of a heeled shoe, it could stand flat on the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

Stucky says his dog, Bumper, can sniff out spies just as well as raccoons, but after sniffing around the woods, both dogs came back with nothing but a shank bone to show for their effort.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

There was further discussion that the group "ain't fighting small shanks".

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Gremolata is traditionally used to garnish Ossobuco alla Milanese — veal shanks braised with vegetables, white wine, and broth — grilled fish or other choices of protein.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023

“Our table never just had Vietnamese food — we would have spring rolls with fish sauce and then lamb shanks, Lebanese bread and hummus all on the same table,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Under those sturdy towers of legs are spindly shanks, thin and not too straight; with his chest ruff removed one can see the sagging stomach of the middle-aged.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

A limping Evans had shanked a late drop-goal and Leinster hung on to win.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

The Bruins drive lasted just four plays before their punter, Brody Richter, shanked his own kick, handing USC the ball at midfield.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

A shanked punt at the worst possible time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2024

The Canadian claimed the ball had hit the frame of Draper's racket and then the floor on match point, saying his opponent "shanked it on the floor", though the umpire disagreed.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024

I ain't one o' them skinny shanked saps, with a chest 'ollered out, and a 'ump, Wot do records on roads for the 'onour, and faint or go slap off their chump.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various

He is more likely to expire on the back nine of a golf course after shanking a par 5 off the tee than any man I’ve ever known.

From Salon ● May 15, 2025

And she wasn’t exactly confident after shanking both her tries in warmups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024

He told reporters on Thursday that he had been suffering with back spasms along with soreness in his surgically repaired leg after uncharacteristically shanking an approach on the 18th.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024

Whether improperly closing a door or shanking a kick in soccer, our brains tell us when we've made a mistake because these sounds differ from what we expect to hear.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2023

The next process is that of shanking, or attaching small metal loops, by which they are fastened to garments.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 by Charles Peters