Knifeplay
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of fighting or cutting with a knife. uncountable
"Reinhart had finished his neat knifeplay, having transformed a half-pound of slab bacon into an accumulation of little strips measuring half an inch by an inch and a half."
- 2 A sexual practice involving the use of knives, daggers, or swords for physical and mental stimulation. uncountable
"When the professor turned out to be too warped even for my tastes — consensual knifeplay is one thing; drunken gunplay quite another […]"
Example
More examples"Reinhart had finished his neat knifeplay, having transformed a half-pound of slab bacon into an accumulation of little strips measuring half an inch by an inch and a half."
Etymology
From knife + play.
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