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slipjoints

slipjoints is the plural of slipjoint.

Meaning of slipjoint

Noun

slipjoint (plural slipjoints)

  1. (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.
  2. (metonymically) A knife or other tool with such a joint; usually a pocketknife.

Questions about slipjoints

What is slipjoints the plural of?
Slipjoints is the plural of slipjoint.

Words near slipjoints in the dictionary

  1. sliphalter
  2. sliphalters
  3. sliphead
  4. slipheads
  5. slipjoint
  6. slipjoints
  7. slipknot
  8. slipknots
  9. slipknotted
  10. slipknotting
  11. slipless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slipjoints (page history and authors); slipjoint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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