Definitions For Shank

noun

  • A poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
  • Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
  • The narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
  • Cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
  • Cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
  • Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
  • The part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
  • A cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
  • The straight, narrow part of a tool that connects the part that does the work with the part that you hold
  • A piece of meat cut from the upper part of the leg
  • The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle

verb

  • Hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction

Is Shank a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
12

The word Shank is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Shank in a Sentence

  • The shank of a drill bit
  • Slashed at the prison guard with a shank he had secretly made from a scrap of metal

Synonyms for Shank

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