Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of ninjato.
The ninjatō’s twenty-three-inch blade glinted in the noonday sun, as bright and clear as the day Sensei Yamamoto had presented it to him in Okinawa.
2010, Max Brooks, “Steve and Fred”, in John Joseph Adams, editor, The Living Dead 2, San Francisco, Calif.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, pages 205–2062 more examples
He struck a pose. “Ta-daa!” / Torralba didn’t look impressed. “Fucking ninjas,” he muttered. / “Do you think so?” August looked down at himself. “I think I need a ninjatō to really sell the image, personally, but—”
2020, Cari Z, L.A. Witt, chapter 2, in Hitman vs. Hitman, GallagherWitt, →ISBN“You mean there’s some maniac running around, cutting our people up with a samurai sword?” Chi’s incredulity made him lean forward, eyes wide. “What is wrong with people? In the good old days, we used machetes.” / “Possibly also a ninjatō,” Mattis put in, unhelpfully. “It’s unlikely to be a machete.”
2021, John Goodrich, chapter 7, in Little Britches, Macabre Ink, →ISBN
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ninjatō. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ninjat%C5%8D
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