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Shank may refer to:

Art and entertainment

• Shank (video game), an action game
• Shank (2009 film), a British drama
• Shank (2010 film), a thriller set in futuristic London
• Shank, a play by Richard Vincent
• Warlord Shank, a villain in the TV series Space Cases
• "Shank", a 1962 song by Bo Diddley from Bo Diddley's a Twister

Objects

• Shank (footwear), a part of a shoe or boot
• Shank (jewelry), a hoop part of a jewelry ring
• Shank (sewing), a spacing device
• Shank (weapon), a makeshift knife or stabbing weapon
• Lead shank, a type of lead used for horses
• Tang (tools), the back portion of the blade component of a tool
• Drill bit shank, the non-cutting end of a drill bit
• Sheepshank, a knot used to shorten a rope

People

• Shank (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname

Places

• Mount Schank, a dormant volcano in Australia
• Shankh Monastery, a monastery in Mongolia
• Forward Operating Base Shank, a U.S. military base in Afghanistan (named after SSG Michael A. Shank)
• Shanksville, Pennsylvania

Other uses

• Another name for the lower leg in humans
• Tibia, one of the two main bones of the leg
• Shank (meat), a cut of meat (e.g., beef shank)
• Shank, a poor golf stroke
• Shanks, wading birds in the genus Tringa
• Shankh, a quantity in the Indian numbering system
• SHANK1, SHANK2, and SHANK3, types of protein

See also

• All pages with titles containing Shank
• All pages with titles beginning with Shank
• Shanks (disambiguation)
• Schenck
• Schenk
• Shenk