Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, the hinged strip of a metal in a knife-switch by the insertion of which between the jaws of the switch the circuit is completed. See
switch , 2 .
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Examples
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With its executive stainless steel design the Na Zha series offers everything a little tot needs for a future in negotiating a global economy: an early appreciation for the aesthetics of industry, razor sharp 'bargaining' skills, multi-functional switch-blade gadgetry ...
Archive 2009-01-01 Red 2009
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With its executive stainless steel design the Na Zha series offers everything a little tot needs for a future in negotiating a global economy: an early appreciation for the aesthetics of industry, razor sharp 'bargaining' skills, multi-functional switch-blade gadgetry ...
Shi Jinsong Red 2009
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I'll have that switch-blade in case anybody tries anything, but I'm getting out of this shithole.
20th Century Dispatch Oliver Hunt 2011
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I also stole twenty dollars out of my mom's purse, and I sent away for a cherry switch-blade, so I don't really need this knife.
20th Century Dispatch Oliver Hunt 2011
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So, I've got a switch-blade coming in the mail, and when it gets here I'm leaving.
20th Century Dispatch Oliver Hunt 2011
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When I was young I used to have a switch-blade comb.
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Songs rap about making "" drive-bys '' on Satan and whipping out a "" King James switch-blade '' on demons.
Rhymes Of Redemption 2008
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He talks to a couple people walking by, and I can hear his radio say something about someone with a switch-blade.
Expand Your Mind archmage 2005
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Does it negate the argument that I have personally seen a switch-blade recently?
PREPOSTEROUS! Nathaniel Livingston 2004
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A single click, final in the room, like the opening of a switch-blade.
The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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