slipjoint
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English
Etymology
Noun
slipjoint (plural slipjoints)
- (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.
- (metonymically) 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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