switchblading

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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