English Dictionary

switchblade

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade. / (intransitive) To spring open or up. / (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.

日本語の意味

(他動詞) スイッチブレードを用いて攻撃または切断する。 / (自動詞) スイッチブレードが急に開く、または跳ね上がる。 / (他動詞・自動詞) 急激な動きや転換を起こす。

He threatened to switchblade anyone who tried to stop the heist.

彼は、強盗を止めようとした者は誰でも折りたたみ式ナイフで刺すと脅した。

意味（1）

(transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade.

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.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To spring open or up.

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

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.

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

switchblades （ present singular third-person ）

switchblading （ participle present ）

switchbladed （ participle past ）

switchbladed （ past ）