shank

1. 1.

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

   Broaderhit

   golf

Other forms of shank

plural

shanks·

past tense

shanked·

present participle

shanking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shank

What does shank mean?

shank means "a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shank?

shank has 1 syllable: shank. In IPA it is /ˈʃæŋk/.

What is another word for shank?

Close synonyms include stem, waist, cannon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shank a common word?

shank is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.