switchblade

1. (transitive) To attack or cut with a switchblade.Examples: "I got terrible hangovers from the cheap booze; and, one night, I almost got switchbladed when I put my arm around the wrong "lady of the night."; "They are the American dream torn asunder, like clean fresh laundry left drying on the clothesline, switchbladed by bored boys of summer."; "Finally there was Jackie, the gold-toothed gang member (as she liked to remind us) who'd switchbladed thirty or forty or fifty people"transitive

2. (intransitive) To spring open or up.Examples: "Switchblading open their silvery cell phones, they call their mortgage brokers and say “Buy.”"; "Steering and stabilization fins switchblading out, followed by the wings."; "I stood there waiting for the three remaining Rottweilers to come barreling toward the fence, fangs switchbladed open."intransitive

3. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden move or transition.Examples: "He briefly rocked medical school, switchbladed to accounting and finally joked his first radio script in 1938."; "The play's principal comic manoeuvre is to have concern switchblading into callousness."; "Daniel's smile is fixed, but his eyes are switchblading from side to side, looking at Paula, looking for an exit."ambitransitive