Associations to the word «Switchblade»

Wiktionary

SWITCHBLADE, noun. A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.

Dictionary definition

SWITCHBLADE, noun. A pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky