Makeshift knife
The crossword clue "Makeshift knife" is answered by SHIV, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SHIV
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SHIV answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SHIV
Every other clue in this collection answered by SHIV, most used first.
- Prison knife - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- Switchblade - used 20 times, most recently in 2013
- Prison weapon - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Hood's knife - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Thug's knife - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Hood's blade - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Gangster's blade - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Pen knife? - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Prisoner's knife - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Thug's blade - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Makeshift swing - TIRE, used 30 times
- Knife handle - HAFT, used 26 times
- Knife - STAB, used 21 times
- Sharpen, as a knife - HONE, used 15 times
- A Swiss Army knife has many - USES, used 12 times
- "___ the Knife" - MACK, used 12 times
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