switch blade

English

Noun

switch blade (plural switch blades)

  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see switch,‎ blade.
  2. Alternative form of switchblade
    • 2009, Jennie Papa, Dante's Sins, →ISBN, page 78:
      Seeing her car keys, she grabbed the chain, finding her switch blade.
    • 2011, Daton L. Fluker, Death Keeper's Biological Wasteland, →ISBN, page 148:
      Sam pulls a switch blade from out of his boot, and runs toward Daton.
    • 2012, Jessica Badrick, In Too Deep, →ISBN:
      In each boot was a small knife, in her left pocket was a pocket knife, taped to her right wrist was a switch blade, and holstered to her shoulder was a dagger.
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