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Slip joint Synonyms & Antonyms

(chiefly attributive) A type of joint for a folding knife, involving a spring that helps hold the blade open against some pressure but does not lock it open in the sense of any positive engagement by the parts of any lock mechanism; it is thus a nonlocking type of joint.

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