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
  • The sentiment felt like a dagger, striking with unbearable pain.
    Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Rohan Nadkarni That feels like a possible first-half dagger.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of dagger
Noun
  • Three Humvees, more than a dozen bayonets and other items were taken from a storage warehouse and parking lot at the Army Reserve Center in Tustin this week, and the thieves remain at large, police announced Friday.
    City News Service, Orange County Register, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Our Most Popular Stories of 2021 This year, readers were into peanut butter and jelly, semi-conductors, bayonets, Victorian knitting manuals, plus the hard-working dogs of Medieval Europe.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of bayonet
Noun
  • Well, some customers like to break it apart in other ways or slice it at home by knife.
    Miami Herald File, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Mejia was also arrested on Nov. 27, 2024, after allegedly stabbing a neighbor's Ring camera with a kitchen knife.
    Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2025
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
  • At the Williamsburg International Airport in Virginia, a pocketknife was found shoved inside someone’s shoe.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
  • After all, what says hardcore quite like amputating your own fingertip with a pocketknife?
    Sarah Goodman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of pocketknife
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