adjective
- having a shaft or shafts
- treated unfairly or cheated
Usage: slang
verb
- past tense and past participle of shaft
Examples
- The arrow was shafted with a sturdy wooden pole.
- The miners were shafted down into the deep tunnels.
- The spear was well-shafted and balanced.
- He felt shafted by the unfair contract terms.
- The employees were shafted when the company cut their benefits.
- She realized she’d been shafted in the business deal.