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Definition of shaft verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

shaft

verb

NAmE//ʃæft//

shaft somebody (informal)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they shaft

he / she / it shafts

past simple shafted

-ing form shafting

to treat someone unfairly or cheat them

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