when nouns want to hang out with the cool crowd

Just the other day (aka yesterday) someone jokingly threatened to shank me ... for one i know this person would never actually harm me or anyone else in any way ... and two ... they were using a noun as a verb ... and people seem to be doing that a lot lately ... when i brought up the whole shanking conversation later i was asked to tell the difference between a shank and a shiv ... so i googled it ... yes thats right ... i just said googled ... it's in the dictionary now as a verb ... ive been trying for a while now to get people to say that they imdbed a movie (imdb.com ... check it out ... and use it was a verb) ... but it doesnt seem to be catching on ... well google didnt give me much information on shanks or shivs ... so i looked it up in the dictionary ... an online dictionary ... because who actually looks through a real dictionary anymore

Dictionary definitions:
Shank - a dagger made by a prison inmate from available materials
Shiv - a knife or razor used as a weapon

So a shank doesn't necessarily have to be a shiv ... sure they can make a dagger but they dont have to use it as a weapon ... although i dont know why they would be making a shank with no intentions of using it ... and you probably won't find a shiv in prison to use as a shank ... although my only perspective of prison comes from Arrested Development (the clip below ... not the one i wanted but it's funny none the less) ... so i could be completely off



I also figured i should make a brief list of nouns that i've heard used as verbs ... but they all involved violent actions so i decided against it