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switchbladed

switchbladed is the simple past and past participle of switchblade.

Adjective

switchbladed (not comparable)

  1. Armed or equipped with a switchblade.
    • For at night, into the back of our stores and restful suburbs come these quiet, switchbladed ambassadors to remind us that the boundary issues are not yet settled.1960, Federal Probation News Letter, page 31
    • Like small children at play, we use the lids of our well-filled garbage cans as a shield, and the T-bone from our latest steak as a sword, and we face this switchbladed Thing in the dark alleys of the world.1967, The Dynamics of Change, page 32
  2. Sharp or cutting.
    • And the sky's eyebrow is mine that rises at the switchbladed wind.1968, Lazar Sarna, The Singsong
    • up here switchbladed laughter pricks at skin better run it will slice you down to mouths studding the ground like pores2005, D. H. Melhem, New York Poems, →ISBN, page 86

Meaning of switchblade

Verb

switchblade (third-person singular simple present switchblades, present participle switchblading, simple past and past participle switchbladed)

  1. (transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade.
    • 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.1987, Ron Rearick, Doug Murren, Iceman, →ISBN, page 53
  2. (intransitive) To spring open or up.
    • Switchblading open their silvery cell phones, they call their mortgage brokers and say “Buy.”2007, Richard Canning, Between Men: Best New Gay Fiction, →ISBN, page 253
  3. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.
    • He briefly rocked medical school, switchbladed to accounting and finally joked his first radio script in 1938.1963, Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell, Celebrity Register

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Questions about switchbladed

What does switchbladed mean?
Switchbladed means armed or equipped with a switchblade.
What is switchbladed the simple past and past participle of?
Switchbladed is the simple past and past participle of switchblade.
What part of speech is switchbladed?
Switchbladed is an adjective.

Words near switchbladed in the dictionary

  1. switchbacked
  2. switchbacking
  3. switchbacks
  4. switchbacky
  5. switchblade
  6. switchbladed
  7. switchblades
  8. switchblading
  9. switchboard
  10. switchboarded
  11. switchboarding

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