switchbladed

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adjective

Armed or equipped with a switchblade.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of switchblade
adjectiveswitchbladed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableArmed or equipped with a switchblade.

    For at night, into the back of our stores and restful suburbs come these quiet, switchbladed ambassadors to remind us that the boundary issues are not yet settled.

    1960, Federal Probation News Letter, page 31
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    Like small children at play, we use the lids of our well-filled garbage cans as a shield, and the T-bone from our latest steak as a sword, and we face this switchbladed Thing in the dark alleys of the world.

    1967, The Dynamics of Change, page 32

    The Force being taken, he'll have to settle for The Glaive, a golden switchbladed boomerang that can do just about anything but salvage this $27 million mishmash of mythical cliches.

    1983, “Virgin Islands dive: Exploring the environment”, in Newsweek, volume 102, numbers 1-9, page 301
  2. not comparableSharp or cutting.

    And the sky's eyebrow is mine that rises at the switchbladed wind.

    1968, Lazar Sarna, The Singsong
    3 more examples

    up here switchbladed laughter pricks at skin better run it will slice you down to mouths studding the ground like pores

    2005, D. H. Melhem, New York Poems, →ISBN, page 86

    Neruda was now completely preoccupied with writing Odes to Washerwomen, to Dead Millionaires and a switchbladed bit of verse called The United Fruit Company.

    1983, Pacita Guevara-Fernandez, Keeping the Flame Alive: Essays in the Humanities

    Thus his switchbladed pencil marked VI-DE over page 292, which happens to be the great waltz at the end of act 2 and rivals the act 3 trio in popularity.

    1997, Erich Leinsdorf, Erich Leinsdorf on Music, page 74
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APA

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Chicago

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