Snickersnee

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Snickersnee is a unique artifact katana in the game NetHack. It is lawfully aligned and confers +d8 damage against all monsters.

Its mythos are drawn from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado:

The criminal cried, as he dropped him down,
 In a state of wild alarm--
With a frightful, frantic, fearful frown,
 I bared my big right arm.
I seized him by his little pig-tail,
 And on his knees fell he,
As he squirmed and struggled,
 And gurgled and guggled,
I drew my snickersnee!
 Oh, never shall I forget the cry,
Or the shriek that shrieked he,
 As I gnashed my teeth,
When from its sheath
 I drew my snickersnee!

Back when pirates were swashbuckling around the seven seas, someone who got into "steake or snye" was engaging in cut-and-thrust sword and dagger fighting. "Steake or snye," which came from a Dutch term meaning "to thrust or cut," was eventually modified into "snick or snee," but the meaning of the phrase remained the same. By around 1775, the phrase had been compressed into the single word "snickersnee," which was used both as a verb for the act of such fighting and as a noun naming the knife used in such clashes.

In NetHack, it is an artifact granted through either the Nethack God, through wishing, or random room generation.