ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Switchblade

/ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbleɪd/ · noun

Meaning

A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed..

A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.
(transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade.
(intransitive) To spring open or up.
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.

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.

They are the American dream torn asunder, like clean fresh laundry left drying on the clothesline, switchbladed by bored boys of summer.

Finally there was Jackie, the gold-toothed gang member (as she liked to remind us) who'd switchbladed thirty or forty or fifty people

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

Steering and stabilization fins switchblading out, followed by the wings.

I stood there waiting for the three remaining Rottweilers to come barreling toward the fence, fangs switchbladed open.

He ticked off the facts, switchblading out a finger for each one.

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

Choose a synonym only when it preserves the intended meaning, tone, and grammar of the full sentence.

Switchblade means A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed..

Common synonyms include switchblade knife.

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

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.

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