switchblade
/ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbleɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.
verb
To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "They are the American dream torn asunder, like clean fresh laundry left drying on the clothesline, switchbladed by bored boys of summer."
- "Finally there was Jackie, the gold-toothed gang member (as she liked to remind us) who'd switchbladed thirty or forty or fifty people"
- "Switchblading open their silvery cell phones, they call their mortgage brokers and say “Buy.”"
- "Steering and stabilization fins switchblading out, followed by the wings."
- "I stood there waiting for the three remaining Rottweilers to come barreling toward the fence, fangs switchbladed open."