Adjective
Armed or equipped with a switchblade.
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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.
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.
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.
Sharp or cutting.
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And the sky's eyebrow is mine that rises at the switchbladed wind.
up here switchbladed laughter pricks at skin better run it will slice you down to mouths studding the ground like pores
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Neruda was now completely preoccupied with writing Odes to Washerwomen, to Dead Millionaires and a switchbladed bit of verse called The United Fruit Company.
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.