razor-blade

• razorblade, razor blade

razor-blade (third-person singular simple present razor-blades, present participle razor-blading, simple past and past participle razor-bladed)

1. To cut or scrape with a razor blade or something similar.
   • 2010, Susan Ioannou, Holding True: Essays on Being a Writer, page 130:

     Of course, my friend razor-bladed the offending page from all her own copies, but whenever she read in the schools, some kid always wanted to know, ' Where's that little green man it says in the front?"

   • 2011, R. Zamora Linmark, Leche, page 96710:

     "Never mind," Nishimura Blaine said as he razor-bladed the box open.

   • 2013, Jason Merkoski, Burning the Page:

     I saw pages from a book carefully razor-bladed out with an X-Acto knife and painted to show scenes of children playing in a field.

   • 2014, Nick Oldham, Vendetta: Judge, Jury, Executioner.:

     Warren razor-bladed the coke into fine lines on the glass-topped coffee table, snorting it up ferociously through a rolled up fifty pound note, as though by doing so it would hit him harder and deeper and maybe take away some of the edge of his anger, which, even he knew, needed to be curbed.

   • 2017, Sascha Feinstein, Wreckage: My Father’s Legacy of Art & Junk, page 104:

     It's a nude, somewhat Cubistic in feel, and memorable primarily for its savage treatment: In an effort to show formal dynamics, Hofmann (one presumes) razor-bladed a section in the center to elevate the torso; poor draftsmanship by the student, it seems, caused the hips to be too low.

   • 2021, Raymond Horricks, Military Mayhem:

     To occupy any spare moments left us, in the course of our four weeks' 'basic' we had to razor-blade all the varnish off these chairs.

2. (figurative) To do something with extreme precision.
   • 2018, Ray Hudson, Ivory and Paper: Adventures In and Out of Time, page 17:

     A sigh slipped between her teeth as she razor-bladed each syllable with her tongue.

razor-blade (plural razor-blades)

1. Alternative form of razor blade
   • 1926, Gillette Company, The Gillette Blade, page 114:

     As a new article of manufacture, a detachable razor-blade of such thinness and flexibility as to require external support to give rigidity to its cutting edge.

   • 1927, New Zealand Patent Office Journal - Volume 15, page 188:

     A further object of the invention is to provide a self-honing safety razor in which the razor-blade may be readily reversed to grind both sides of the blade.

   • 2012, Claude Gnos, ‎Sergio Rossi, Modern Monetary Macroeconomics, page 32:

     In the 'package' of the prices for razor-blades arrayed between the price of one pen and the price of two pens, all prices lying in between those two extremes remain undefined or inexistent.

This form is primarily used as an attributive noun.