slipjoint

English

Etymology

From slip +‎ joint.

Noun

slipjoint (plural slipjoints)

  1. (chiefly attributive) A type of joint for a folding knife, involving a spring that helps hold the blade open against some pressure but does not lock it open in the sense of any positive engagement by the parts of any lock mechanism; it is thus a nonlocking type of joint.
  2. (metonymic) A knife or other tool with such a joint; usually a pocketknife.
    Hypernyms: folding knife, folder, clasp-knife
    Coordinate terms: button lock, frame lock, liner lock, lockback

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