To use mother’s colt or to use granny’s colt is another expression for going somewhere on foot. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Mother’s Colt” We were talking earlier about shanks mares or to use shanks ponies another expression...
A prison employee wants to know about the term shank, that name for sharp weapons made with toothbrushes and pieces of metal. It derives from shank in the sense of the type of animal bone historically used in weapon making. This is part of a...
It’s the shank of the evening! But when is that, exactly? This phrase is typically suggests that the night is far from over, shank being an old word for something straight, or the tail end of something. But as the Dictionary of American Regional...
stubby n.— «Stubbies are foreshortened prostheses used during and sometimes after initial ambulatory rehabilitation. They are custom fitted and are usually made up of standard sockets, no articulated knee joints or shank, with modified rocker...
shanks n.pl.— «Wiley’s golf game did end up a victim of “the shanks” as he called it, falling to 19-year old Eastern Michigan golfer Sean Behnke 2 & 1 in the first round.» —“Ithaca’s Duckworth advances to quarters” by Nate Schneider Morning Sun (Mt...
