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    [Noun]  | "shaft" | \ ˈshaft \


    1: the long handle of a spear or similar weapon

    2: spear, lance

    3: pole; specifically : either of two long pieces of wood between which a horse is hitched to a vehicle


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English sceaft; akin to Old High German scaft shaft, Latin scapus shaft, stalk, Greek skēptesthai to prop oneself, lean;

    [Noun]  | "shaft horsepower" 


    1: horsepower transmitted by an engine shaft


    Origin: 1908 ;

    [Noun]  | "butt shaft" 


    1: a target arrow without a barb


    Origin: circa 1595 ;

    [Noun]  | "the shaft" 


    1: harsh or unfair treatment —usually used with give or get

    [Verb]  | "shaft" 


    1: to fit with a shaft

    2: to treat unfairly or harshly


    Origin: 1611 ;

    [Noun]  | "shaft" 


    1: a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object;


      * e.g., " ... shafts of late-afternoon sunlight pierced the blinds and streaked the floor "





    2: a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade;


      * e.g., " ... the footmen set their shafts so as to form a bank of steel against the enemy's charging cavalry "



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    3: unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this;


      * e.g., " ... the homeowners who were bought out are convinced they got the shaft in that deal "



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     [ "shaft" ]

    1: To get screwed over.

      * e.g.,  ... I got shafted when I went to the mall to buy my clothes. 

     [ "shaft" ]

    1:  A black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks.

      * e.g.,  ... Samuel L. Jackson is Shaft in Shaft. 


     [ "shaft" ]

    2:  The man that would risk his neck for his brother man


     [ "shaft" ]

    3:  The cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about.


     [ "shaft" ]

    4:  A Bad Mother--


     [ "shaft" ]

    5:  A complicated man, no one understands him but his woman.


     [ "shaft" ]

    6:  John Shaft.

     [ "shaft" ]

    1:  n. A place where minerals are mined.

      * e.g.,  ... (1) I dug 25 pounds of gold in that mine shaft yesterday. 


     [ "shaft" ]

    2:  n. Slang for penis, especially that of large and hard status.

      * e.g.,  ... (2) Damn! Put that shaft away. 

     [ "shaft" ]

    1: the bit before the bellend

      * e.g.,  ... she got my whole shaft in her mouth! 

     [ "shaft" ]

    1: shäft, n anything long and straight; a stem; an arrow; a missile (esp fig); the main, upright, straight, or cylindrical part of anything; the part of a cross below the arms; the part of a column between the base and the capital; the rachis of a feather; the thill of a carriage on either side of the horse; a straight handle; a pole; a ray or beam of light; a rotating rod that transmits motion; a well-like excavation or passage; the penis (coarse slang); a woman’s body (purely as sexual object) (US coarse slang). — vt to have sexual intercourse with (a woman) (coarse slang); to dupe, swindle, treat unfairly (slang). — adj shaft’ed. — n shaft’er or shaft’-horse a horse harnessed between shafts. — n shaft’ing the action of the verb in either sense; a system of shafts. — adj shaft’less. — make a shaft or a bolt of it to venture and take what comes of it, the shaft and the bolt being the arrows of the longbow and the crossbow respectively.

      * e.g.,  ... "Jack was gonna go and party with us. Apparently he's one pure sonofabitch and went out with his girlfriend. It was one unforgiven shaft of his" 

     [ "shaft" ]

    1: A word that is usually followed by the phrase "Can you dig it?"

      * e.g.,  ... Shaft-"Can you dig it?" 

     [ "shaft" ]

    1: being treated badly at work

      * e.g.,  ... You may not be surprised, but I got the fuckin' shaft at work today. Nothing like working another 20 hr day. 

     [ "shaft" ]

    1: when a person ditches their friends for someone they think is more important

      * e.g.,  ... A.M.'s friends are being shafted because of her boyfriend she doesn't even like! 

     [ "shaft" ]

    1: dick, or the ver "to fuck"

      * e.g.,  ... "i wanna show that girl my shaft (see "rambo dick") and shaft her in every orifice" 

     [ "shaft" ]

    1: to be ignored by someone, to be dissed

      * e.g.,  ... did that a girl you were talking to finally open your snapchat? yeah but she shafted me. 

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