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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
switchblade
noun
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▪ He once pulled a switchblade on his director because they couldn't agree on the way to do a scene.
▪ I pulled the switchblade out of my pocket and pressed the button.
▪ Lucy looked down and realised that she was still carrying the switchblade.
▪ The switchblade fell from his hand as he sagged to the ground, whimpering softly, his hands clutched between his legs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
switchblade

also switch-blade, type of folding pocket knife, 1932, from switch (n.) + blade. So called for the "switch" which is pressed to spring the knife open. Earlier a similar tool was known as an Arkansas toothpick (1837) and a clasp-knife (1755).

Wiktionary
switchblade

n. A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.

WordNet
switchblade

n. a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button [syn: switchblade knife, flick knife]

Wikipedia
SwitchBlade

SwitchBlade is the registered name of a family of layer 2 and layer 3 chassis switches developed by Allied Telesis. Current models include the SwitchBlade x3112 layer 2 edge switch, and the SwitchBlade x908 and SwitchBlade x8112 layer 3 core switches. The first model was the SwitchBlade 4000 layer 3 core chassis, which ran the earlier AlliedWare operating system.

Switchblade (album)

Switchblade is a 1994 album by Schaft. A promotional video for the song Arbor Vitate was filmed, and was later re-used by PIG for their version of the song.

Switchblade (disambiguation)

A switchblade is a type of knife.

Switchblade may also refer to:

In aviation:

  • Northrop Grumman Switchblade, a project that started development in 2006
  • Northrop Switchblade, another experimental aircraft
  • AeroVironment Switchblade, a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle
  • Samson Switchblade, an American roadable aircraft design

In music:

  • Switchblade (band), a heavy metal band from Sydney, Australia
  • Switchblade, a Swedish-Grammy nominated doom/avant-garde metal band from Stockholm, Sweden
  • Switchblade Symphony, an American band
  • Strawberry Switchblade, a Scottish band
  • Switchblade (album), an album by Schaft
  • "Switchblade", an instrumental by Link Wray

In gaming:

  • Razer Switchblade, a 2011 portable gaming device by Razer
  • Switchblade (video game)
  • Switchblade 2, a computer game

In technology:

  • SwitchBlade, a family of chassis network switches by Allied Telesis

Other:

  • "Switchblade" (The Unit), an episode of the television series The Unit
  • SS-N-25 Switchblade, a version of the Kh-35 Russian anti-ship missile
Switchblade (band)

Switchblade were a five-piece metal band from Sydney, Australia, formed in 2001 and ending in 2011. Switchblade were the support act for bands such as Slayer, Machine Head, Exodus, Trivium and Nevermore during their respective Australian tours and released two albums. They also appeared at Metal for the Brain and the Come Together Music Festival.

Switchblade (video game)

Switchblade is a computer platform game developed by Core Design and released by Gremlin Graphics in 1989.

The game was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC formats. An enhanced port of the latter for the Amstrad GX4000 console was released in 1991.

The player guides the protagonist, Hiro, through a flip-screen platform environment with a subterranean setting. Unexplored areas of the screen are obscured from view until the player character enters them.

A sequel, Switchblade II was released in 1991.

Usage examples of "switchblade".

Larry was sitting in his sandpile crying, Joe was doubled over on the ground gasping, Jimmy Ortega was waning about his arm, and Benny Maestas, his face covered with blood, his eyes staring at a damp switchblade knife in his hand that he thought maybe he had stuck into one of those bastards, was propped against a basket pole, snarling epithets.

They rocked along in a jangle of light past appliance shops with Aztec temples painted on their facades, bodegas clubs souvenir shops, their bright windows aglitter with crystal crosses gilt madonnas rhinestone eagle knives flashing in miles of red midnight, little stucco caves with corrugated iron doors rolled partway down, interiors littered with every form of cheapness: mirrors with ornate tin frames, torrero capes with airbrushed scenes from the Plaza del Toros, sombreros festooned with embroidery and bits of broken mirror, switchblades with dragons worked in gold paint you could scrape off with your thumbnail.

Looking at them sitting there on the car, acting goofy, it was easy to forget how hard they could be, how quickly the switchblades could slip down out of their sleeves and appear in their hands.

In the pockets of his jeans we found three clasp knives and a switchblade, and on his belt he had a hunting knife in a sheath.

And Marvin did, but not before Sally saw a switchblade flash in his hand, which made her flesh crawl as she fell forward limply in the chair.

The switchblade impaled his right eye, burying itself in the spongy softness of the frontal lobes, severing left brain from right.

Like tinsel suddenly tossed on a Christmas tree, the merry twinkling of switchblades, tire irons and filed-down garrison belt buckles appeared among the crowd in the street.

I jammed the fingers of my left hand into my hip pocket and came out with the switchblade that Sonny Teeter had donated to Joey in the parking lot of Mother's Milk.

Henry pushes the button on the switchblade, feels the long blade leap out, and thrusts it forward.

In half a second the switchblade was out of her pocket, the blade open and the point tapping out red dots on the underside of his chin.