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Switchblade

//ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbleɪd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.
  2. 2
    a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To attack or cut with a switchblade. transitive

    "I got terrible hangovers from the cheap booze; and, one night, I almost got switchbladed when I put my arm around the wrong "lady of the night."

  2. 2
    To spring open or up. intransitive

    "Switchblading open their silvery cell phones, they call their mortgage brokers and say “Buy.”"

  3. 3
    To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition. ambitransitive

    "He briefly rocked medical school, switchbladed to accounting and finally joked his first radio script in 1938."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From switch + blade.

Etymology 2

From switch + blade.

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