switchbladeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

switch +‎ blade

名詞

switchblade (複数形 switchblades)

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

参考

• flick knife

動詞

switchblade (三人称単数 現在形 switchblades, 現在分詞 switchblading, 過去形および過去分詞形 switchbladed)

1. (transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade.
   • 1987, Ron Rearick & Doug Murren, Iceman, →ISBN, page 53:

     I got terrible hangovers from the cheap booze; and, one night, I almost got switchbladed when I put my arm around the wrong "lady of the night.

   • 2015, Paul Maher Jr. & Caitlin Stuart, Love That Loves Us: Reflections on the Films of Terrence Malick, →ISBN:

     They are the American dream torn asunder, like clean fresh laundry left drying on the clothesline, switchbladed by bored boys of summer.

   • 2016, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed, →ISBN:

     Finally there was Jackie, the gold-toothed gang member (as she liked to remind us) who'd switchbladed thirty or forty or fifty people

2. (intransitive) To spring open or up.
   • 2007, Richard Canning, Between Men: Best New Gay Fiction, →ISBN, page 253:

     Switchblading open their silvery cell phones, they call their mortgage brokers and say “Buy.”

   • 2007, David Poyer, The Command: A Novel, →ISBN, page 190:

     Steering and stabilization fins switchblading out, followed by the wings.

   • 2009, Erik Raschke, The Book of Samuel: A Novel, →ISBN, page 200:

     I stood there waiting for the three remaining Rottweilers to come barreling toward the fence, fangs switchbladed open.

   • 2015, Jeffrey Bartsch, Two Across, →ISBN:

     He ticked off the facts, switchblading out a finger for each one.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.
   • 1963, Cleveland Amory & Earl Blackwell, Celebrity Register:

     He briefly rocked medical school, switchbladed to accounting and finally joked his first radio script in 1938.

   • 2002, Plays International - Volume 18, page 15:

     The play's principal comic manoeuvre is to have concern switchblading into callousness.

   • 2007, Lynn Hoffman, Bang Bang, →ISBN, page 76:

     Daniel's smile is fixed, but his eyes are switchblading from side to side, looking at Paula, looking for an exit.

   • 2014, Carol Muske-Dukes, Dear Digby: A Novel, →ISBN:

     The lantern began swinging to its own rhythm, switchblading light all over the tent.

形容詞

switch-blade ‎(not comparable)

1. Having a spring-loaded blade.
   • 1991, Alan Rodgers & ‎William Relling, Jr., New Life for the Dead, ISBN 1587151057, page 38:

     Besides, if worse came to worst he had his pig-sticker— a beautiful switch-blade stiletto he'd scrounged off the body of a Latino after a gang war— in his back pocket.

   • 2009, Mickey Hager, Cruelty, ISBN 055714311X, page 26:

     He carried this switch-blade style knife with him always and at any given moment, would flip it out to dart small holes into any nearby piece of wood—a tree, a board, the side of a house.

   • 2010, Bobby Neal Chapman, Bastion, ISBN 1608449653, page 1:

     He had a switch-blade knife in his boot that was carried for this kind of situation, but he was reluctant to cut himself loose from his chute until he had some idea how far it was to fall.

動詞

switch-blade ‎(三人称単数 現在形 switch-blades, 現在分詞 switch-blading, 過去形および過去分詞形 switch-bladed)

1. Alternative form of switchblade
   • 1981, Frank M. Laurence, Hemingway and the movies, page 167:

     Richard Beymer, as Nick Adams, had last been seen on the screen being switch-bladed to death in West Side Story (UA, 1961).

   • 2001, Leon Forrest, There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden, ISBN 0226257215, page 43:

     And to the west, a faint, somber, Sabbath tolling away and then a train's whistle crying down a long-ago-gone switch-blading track (like that streaking scar on old man Dickson's face).

   • 2008, Drew Ferguson, The Screwed Up Life of Charlie The Second, ISBN 0758263473:

     My dick switch-bladed up and I jerked away.

   • 2010, Keith E. Byerman, Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction, ISBN 0820337765:

     And the fist of my bloody right hand coming down hard and well-deep into the pit of my stomach and howling as if death's mothering-birthing switch-blading force had sliced across my face, as i did come from up underneath the bed and stood in all of my nakedness before my mother's body-length mirror, locked away in the enframing reflection as my bloody hands clasped away at my loins and i crumbled upon the floor rising and falling raising and falling and rising and falling.