A sharp weapon made locally by your neighborhood cholo.
Sharp object used to stab people like a knife, often used in prison by la eme, and other prison gangs.
Also see nigger shank.
JJ: Did you hear about joey? they found him lying in a puddle of his own blood, with a cholo shank in his stomach...
Tim: Meh... No big loss, guy was a waste of life anyways...
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