Switchblade
The crossword clue "Switchblade" is answered by SHIV, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1971. 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 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- Prison weapon - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Hood's knife - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Makeshift knife - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
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- Appear - SEEM, used 451 times
- Ooze - SEEP, used 449 times
- "Auld Lang ___" - SYNE, used 447 times
- Withered - SERE, used 400 times
- Location - SITE, used 390 times
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