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Switch-blade

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a spring-loaded blade. not-comparable

    "Besides, if worse came to worst he had his pig-sticker— a beautiful switch-blade stiletto he'd scrounged off the body of a Latino after a gang war— in his back pocket."

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of switchblade. alt-of, alternative

    "As I listened to Stokely's words, cutting like a switch-blade, accusing the enemy as I had never heard him accused before, I admit that I felt the cathartic power of his speech."

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of switchblade. alt-of, alternative

    "Richard Beymer, as Nick Adams, had last been seen on the screen being switch-bladed to death in West Side Story (UA, 1961)."

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