switchblade, switchblade knife, flick-knife, flick knife
(noun) a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button
Source: WordNet® 3.1
switchblade (plural switchblades)
A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed.
switchblade (third-person singular simple present switchblades, present participle switchblading, simple past and past participle switchbladed)
(transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade.
(intransitive) To spring open or up.
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.
Source: Wiktionary
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
