razorblade

razorblade (plural razorblades)

1. Alternative spelling of razor blade.
   • 1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman:

     She was thinking now that it must be an elaborate plot: the president of the razorblade company had possessed a miraculous razorblade which had been in his family for generations and which not only renewed its sharpness every time it was used but also granted the shaver anything he wished for after every thirteenth shave...

   • 1999, The Voice of the Crystal: How to Build Working Radio Receiver Components Entirely from Scratch, page 61:

     The razorblade is screwed flat to a small block of wood.

   • 2001, Adam J. Rechs, Effects of Norepinephrine and Amino Acids on the Electrophysiology of the Anterior Piriform Cortex, page 83:

     Once the cut is made, it is helpful to leave the razorblade where it is and simply remove the dorsal portion of brain from the razorblade, leaving the ventral portion still touching the razorblade.

razorblade (third-person singular simple present razorblades, present participle razorblading, simple past and past participle razorbladed)

1. Alternative spelling of razor-blade.
   • 1968, Bruce Gould, Beatrice Blackmar Gould, American Story, page 243:

     Vandals, who couldn't get a Journal any other way, razorbladed Little Princesses sections out of reserved drugstore copies to the great indignation of the ultimate purchasers.

   • 1984, Bruce A. Shuman, River Bend Revisited: The Problem Patron in the Library, page 122:

     Magazines found on tables at the end of the day might have articles neatly razorbladed out of them, or perhaps the editorialistic reader had written comments next to the text , expressing his or her opinion of the author's contentions.

   • 1997, Tim W. Brown, Deconstruction Acres, page 112:

     "I knew a guy once who died that way," said Reid. "A Dorito razorbladed through the roof of his mouth and into his brain.

   • 2012, Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate:

     The main character is a disturbed young man who roams Pittsburgh by night, chemically sedating his victims with a syringe before razorblading their wrists and drinking their blood.