Switch-blade
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Switch-blade is a noun meaning Having a spring-loaded blade.
Meaning
Having a spring-loaded blade.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of switchblade.
Example Sentences
Silas Mort was a back-stabber who favoured a switch-blade.
At least Tabitha had never threatened me with a switch-blade.
Richard Beymer, as Nick Adams, had last been seen on the screen being switch-bladed to death in West Side Story (UA, 1961).
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.
Word Forms
- switch-blades
- switch-blading
- switch-bladed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spring-release, wire-edged, leaf-sprung, raffled, sweptback, sprocketed.
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