# shanker

Pronunciation: US say "SHANG-ker" /ˈʃæŋkɚ/; UK say "SHANG-kuh" /ˈʃæŋkə/

## Noun

1. A golfer who shanks the ball, mishitting it badly.
   - Simple: A golfer who shanks the ball, hitting it very badly.
   - _After three balls in a row sailed into the trees, he admitted he had become a shanker._
   - _The club's weekend shankers were banned from the practice tee nearest the parking lot._
2. A shoe-factory worker who glues the shank into a shoe.
   - Simple: A worker who glues a stiff strip, called a shank, into the bottom of a shoe.
   - _Each shanker on the line handled hundreds of shoe bottoms a shift, gluing a metal shank into every one._
   - _When the plant automated its gluing, most of the shankers moved to other jobs on the floor._

## Noun

3. Obsolete form of chancre. *(obsolete)* — Obsolete form of chancre.
   - Simple: Obsolete form of chancre. Today the word is spelled chancre.

## Origin

Formed from shank + the suffix -er.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/shanker (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).