different between depants vs shank

English

Etymology

de- +? pants

Verb

depants (third-person singular simple present depantses, present participle depantsing, simple past and past participle depantsed)

1. (slang, transitive) To remove the trousers from (someone), often by force or surprise as a prank.
   • 1954, Edith Pope, River in the Wind, Scribner, page 100:

     "'First off we depants's you. Then we take and bounce you. You'll be pulling oyster shells out of your backside—

   • 1998, Bruce Clayton, Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood, University of Missouri Press, ?ISBN, page 195:

     "For moronic fun we liked to sneak up behind a buddy and depants him, particularly if he was trying to sweet-talk a young college-bound girl."

   • 2004, Vicki Lewis Thompson, The Nerd Who Loved Me, St. Martin's Press, ?ISBN, page 72:

     "Harry had been about eight when three burly high school kids had followed him home, threatening to 'depants that little nerd.'"

Derived terms

• depantsing

References

• Dictionary.com entry

Anagrams

• pantsed, pedants, pentads

English

Etymology

From Middle English schanke, from Old English s?anca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skank?, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Norwegian skank), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek ????? (skáz?, “to limp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Noun

shank (plural shanks)

1. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
2. Meat from that part of an animal.
3. (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
4. A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
5. The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
6. The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
7. A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
8. The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
9. (sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
10. (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon; a shiv.
11. A loop forming an eye to a button.
12. (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)

13. (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
14. (printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
15. (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
16. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
17. The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
18. The main part or beginning of a period of time.

Synonyms

(improvised stabbing weapon): shiv (slang)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shank (third-person singular simple present shanks, present participle shanking, simple past and past participle shanked)

1. (archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot.
2. (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
3. (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
4. (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
5. (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
6. (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
   • 1861, Charles Darwin, Cause of the variation of flowers

     the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off.

7. (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
   • 2000, The Indian Textile Journal (volume 110, issues 7-12)

     The system is suitable for shanking all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers).

8. (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
   • 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press (?ISBN):

     I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.

Synonyms

(to stab with an improvised weapon): shiv (slang)

(to remove another's pants): depants (slang)

Adjective

shank (comparative shanker, superlative shankest)

1. (slang) Bad.

See also

• shank it
• (poorly played golf shot): thin, fat, toe

Anagrams

• Hanks, Naskh, ankhs, hanks, khans