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switch-blading

switch-blading is the present participle and gerund of switch-blade.

Meaning of switch-blade

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

Questions about switch-blading

What is switch-blading the present participle and gerund of?
Switch-blading is the present participle and gerund of switch-blade.

Words near switch-blading in the dictionary

  1. switch trading
  2. switch up
  3. switch-blade
  4. switch-bladed
  5. switch-blades
  6. switch-blading
  7. switch-hit
  8. switch-hits
  9. switch-hitter
  10. switch-hitters
  11. switch-hitting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: switch-blading (page history and authors); switch-blade (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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