razor blade

plural razor blades · alternative razorblade · alternative razor-blade

1. A thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor.
2. A replaceable cartridge in which razor blades are set, fitted into a razor.

   Synonyms: head[Appendix:Glossary

3. broadlyA thin interchangeable blade for a utility knife (especially, that of a Stanley knife) that is similar to a razor blade stricto sensu (in size, thinness, and sharpness).

present singular third person razor blades · participle present razor blading · participle past razor bladed · past razor bladed

1. alternativerareAlternative form of razor-blade.

   I was the last man aboard. The last to feel her as a living vessel before she became a steel hulk and was razor bladed.

   2019, Simon Quail, Gangway: A Life at Sea, page ii

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   In the razor blade tests DeVries conducted the person who was razor blading it before cure was exactly the same person that was doing it after cure.

   1988, Certain High Intensity Retroreflective Sheeting, Inv. 337-TA-268, page 374

   It's unlikely that anyone will razor blade your pack open inside a hotel, but light fingers may, occasionally, dip into unlocked luggage.

   1991, Rob Rachowiecki, Peru: A Travel Survival Kit, page 185

   To those of us living in democracies today, the image of my father sitting at home and razor blading out a page to glue in the newly updated replacement might seem ridiculous.

   2020, Natan Sharansky, Gil Troy, Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People