Switch-blade
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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)."
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
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