»shiv

shiv, a mellifluous word that never ceases to amuse me when it reaches my ear, means a razor; cited in 1915, variant of chive, thieves' cant word for "knife" (1673), and is of unknown origin. It may be from a Viking word, shiver: (n) A splinter, a small piece of wood. Shiver is the diminutive of shive (a thin slice). Ice skífa (a slice). Compare with Yorkshire dialect (to split, to pare - especially of leather) and the E slang shiv (a knife).
And, of course, there's always the Don Cheadle take on it, from the same film as "You know, in a situation like this, there's a high potentiality for the common motherfucker to bitch out. "