"slipjoint" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: slipjoints [plural]
Etymology: slip + joint Etymology templates: {{compound|en|slip|joint}} slip + joint Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: attributive Translations (mechanism): kitkalukko (Finnish), Slipjointverschluss [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-slipjoint-en-noun-8vxIFMk3 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of 'mechanism': 98 2
  2. (metonymically) A knife or other tool with such a joint; usually a pocketknife. Tags: metonymically
    Sense id: en-slipjoint-en-noun-yfGnlSP7 Categories (other): English metonyms

Inflected forms

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