What does switch-blade mean?
Switch-blade means Alternative form of switchblade..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of switchblade..
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.
Silas Mort was a back-stabber who favoured a switch-blade.
At least Tabitha had never threatened me with a switch-blade.
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.
He carried this switch-blade style knife with him always and at any given moment, would flip it out to dart small holes into any nearby piece of wood—a tree, a board, the side of a house.
He had a switch-blade knife in his boot that was carried for this kind of situation, but he was reluctant to cut himself loose from his chute until he had some idea how far it was to fall.
Richard Beymer, as Nick Adams, had last been seen on the screen being switch-bladed to death in West Side Story (UA, 1961).
And to the west, a faint, somber, Sabbath tolling away and then a train's whistle crying down a long-ago-gone switch-blading track (like that streaking scar on old man Dickson's face).
Use switch-blade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Switch-blade means Alternative form of switchblade..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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