2015年10月27日 · Yes, to my (white, middle-class) knowledge "shank", in the sense of an improvised knife-like weapon used in a prison, goes back at least 50 years (and likely much farther).

2014年12月12日 · Shanked, shank. orgin: prison slang. shanked: to be stabbed with a homemade knife. made out of scrap of metal found anywhere and sharpend like a knife. and bottom tightly wrapped with a cloth as a handle. Probably in the past in prisons shinbones were adapted and used as knives.

2015年2月9日 · Spindle-shanked means ‘having long, thin legs’. It’s rather a contemptuous term to use, whereby a person’s shanks (legs) are compared in shape to a spindle. Beaux is the plural of beau, meaning ‘a rich, fashionable young man; a dandy’.