Hermoine's cat
The name Crookshanks seems to refer to the cat's bandy legs, from crook, meaning "a bend", and shank, a term for the lower part of the legs. Hope this was helpful :)
To shank is to stab.
"Went by crook or by shank" is an idiomatic expression meaning to take a more difficult or less direct route to get somewhere. It implies doing something in a roundabout or unconventional way.
to stab and kill some one
To Shank someone means to stab them, anywere you want to.!
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A crook is a thief.
shank
In Australian CROOK means sick or ill (any type of disease or sickness.)
Shank (v) to knife somebody in a looser term not necessarily with a knife and also quick and an unanticipated knifing Shank (n) something you use to shank (see above) somebody with Shank (n) means a leg. King Edward I of England was called Longshanks because he was tall. A shank is a cut of meat from the leg of a cow or calf.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! The shank is on the leg, so it's near the end of an animal. The shank of the evening means the late afternoon, near the end of the day.
It essentially means that if you over shoot or miss the goal entirely (shank), you have to be the one to go retrieve the ball (shag)