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shank

[shangk] / ʃæŋk /


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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

His shank was behind some eucalyptus trees that frame the right side of the fairway.

From Seattle Times Feb. 15, 2024

“I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.”

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

Frontier offers wild game options, including a venison cheese steak, smoked and braised elk shanks and BBQ boar mac and cheese.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2024

But under pressure from the defender, Brewster shanks his shot well wide.

From BBC Feb. 24, 2024

Poullard’s, inspired by her travels to Rome, was braised osso buco, or veal shanks, served with polenta, shaved parmesan, crispy fennel and shallots.

From Seattle Times Jun. 30, 2023

In the last decade or so, younger Arab Americans have raised Little Arabia’s profile on social media through photos of falafels, shawarma and lamb shanks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2022

Almost all the boys were thin, some past the point of gauntness, with spindly shanks and arms like twigs.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

That shanked drop-goal as a relative kid, the injury that took him out of the game early a year later, made all the more painful because Scotland won.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2026

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 need to do a better job making adjustments on the fly. Yes, it’s been awhile since I shanked one like that. I had a really tough shot after that but I pulled it off.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 15, 2024

Parallel shanked twist drills are driven by chucks, while taper, shanked ones, are driven by sockets, such as in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

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 Peters, Charles




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