Switch-blade

As I listened to Stokely's words, cutting like a switch-blade, accusing the enemy as I had never heard him accused before, I admit that I felt the cathartic power of his speech.

Silas Mort was a back-stabber who favoured a switch-blade.

At least Tabitha had never threatened me with a switch-blade.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).