Certain part of the evening, slangily

• Member got depressed having taken heroin
• Evening segment
• Butcher’s offering
• A cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
• Poor golf shot
• Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the shank of a button EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Add a few veal shanks at a time and coat well with flour, shaking off any excess. 2. ▪ Parenti even suggests substituting beef shanks for oxtails; which are bony, like oxtails, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
canon \can"on\ (k[a^]n"[u^]n), n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. kanw`n rule, rod, fr. ka`nh, ka`nnh, reed. See Cane , and cf. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sceanca "leg, shank, shinbone," specifically, the part of the leg from the knee to the ankle, from Proto-Germanic *skankon- (cognates: Middle Low German schenke , German schenkel "shank, leg"), perhaps literally "that which bends," from PIE ...

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