otf
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Initialism of out-the-front, telescoping, describing a knife or sword which extends and retracts through a hole in one end of the handle, rather than folding (or having a fixed blade).
noun
Example Sentences
- "He retracted the OTF blade into the hilt and walked away. Azrael's phone rang. He sighed and answered the call. “What?” “What the hell do you think you are doing?” “I took care of a small problem.”"
- "Frank never went anywhere without his OTF (out the front) gravity knife, issued to him by Uncle Sam […] He pushed the button forward to eject the blade from its olive-green hilt, and swung his arm around toward his [target]."
- "Straight-line spring or end-line spring - with a blade that fires both in and out, which utilizes a unique mechanism that simultaneously compresses the spring and releases the blade on each up-and-down movement of the button on the knife. This is often referred to as an “out the front” or OTF."
- "I've found it better to just give them an OTF knife than to argue."
Inflected Forms
OTFs (plural)