switch knife

noun

Definition of switch knifenext
as in bowie knife

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  1. bowie knife
  2. dagger
  3. bayonet
  4. knife
  5. machete
  6. pocketknife
Noun
  • The speaker that February night was Cassius Marcellus Clay, a bold and brawling Kentucky abolitionist, equally skilled with a stump speech and a bowie knife.
    Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
  • There’s a reason bowie knives were developed to be fighting knives.
    Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
Definition of bowie knife
Noun
  • Still, after all that time, James is capable of making winning plays — the chase down block, the key defensive stop and the bully-ball dagger all playing a role in helping the Lakers defeat the Kings 113-100.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Seymour and her colleagues also found other artifacts at the site, including crossbow bolts, lead bullets, swords, daggers, chain mail and plate armor.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of dagger
Noun
  • Apparently, Lord John’s distant cousin Charles Grey and his troops killed 100 men in their beds, using nothing but bayonets.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • If these were not available a gun could be spiked with a bayonet which would then be broken off so it could not be pulled out.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of bayonet
Noun
  • Berlin police detained a man on Tuesday following a knife attack that left two people injured in the city's Charlottenburg neighborhood.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Unlike vanilla bean paste, which can be easily scooped and stirred into the base, vanilla beans are typically steeped in the milk mixture and require a little bit of knife work, splitting and scraping the seeds out of the pod.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of knife
Noun
  • Almost a year after his death, one of his former friends – the one who’d kept a machete beside his bed – was still bitterly haunted.
    Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
  • That same year, 16 people were killed after a Uyghur attacked dozens of Chinese police officers with a dump truck and machetes.
    Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of machete
Noun
  • The man forced the boyfriend into the bathroom at gunpoint with a revolver while the woman pulled out a pocketknife and began going through the victim’s belongings, the affidavit said.
    Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Neal’s lawyer argued that Hopkins was wearing a tool belt that included blunt objects and a closed pocketknife, making the homicide self-defense.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of pocketknife
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