Definitions
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- proper n. A utility knife, usually with a short, sharp, disposable blade mounted on a pen-like body, usually for crafts and hobbies. Also X-Acto knife.
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Examples
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Fancy thought about stabbing it with one of the X-Acto knives strewn irresponsibly around the room.
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The man reached across the table, picked up the X-Acto knife.
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"From 1,700 frames they cut out images with X-Acto knives," Mr. Bonomo said.
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Before Control was released, a record company executive told me how he ordered the art director to take an X-Acto knife and slim down my image on the cover.
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This is why, two decades later, we still have the same designs, meticulously drawn onto graph paper and cut out with an X-Acto knife, kept in the same, yellowed folder, "Jul" marked in red pen on the outside.
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Which is why I carry the note over to the self-healing mat at the back of the room and use an X-Acto knife to cut each word out in a precise, tiny rectangle.
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Email a copy of 'Emancipation by X-Acto.' to a friend
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Though Pichette professed to hate headlines about him such as “The Axman Comes to Google,” his charter was indeed to do some trimming, albeit, perhaps with an X-Acto knife instead of an ax.
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Then he carves them out with a No. 11 X-Acto knife and glues them to a piece of white paper.
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Ms. Song used an X-Acto knife to cut a zebra from heavy black paper, to be scanned into the computer and replicated so that two zebras would be this-close to kissing over a gold heart.
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