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switch-blade

switch-blade is the alternative form of switchblade.

Meaning of switchblade

Noun

switchblade (plural switchblades)

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

See all 4 meanings of switchblade

Adjective

switch-blade (not comparable)

  1. Having a spring-loaded 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.1991, Alan Rodgers; William Relling, Jr., New Life for the Dead, →ISBN, page 38
    • 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.2009, Mickey Hager, Cruelty, →ISBN, page 26

Forms of switch-blade

Noun
pluralswitch-blades
Verb
third-person singular presentswitch-blades
present participleswitch-blading
past participleswitch-bladed
pastswitch-bladed

Questions about switch-blade

What does switch-blade mean?
Switch-blade means having a spring-loaded blade.
What is switch-blade the alternative form of?
Switch-blade is the alternative form of switchblade.
What part of speech is switch-blade?
Switch-blade is an adjective.

Words near switch-blade in the dictionary

  1. switch selling
  2. switch tack
  3. switch teams
  4. switch trading
  5. switch up
  6. switch-blade
  7. switch-bladed
  8. switch-blades
  9. switch-blading
  10. switch-hit
  11. switch-hits

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