razor-blade

verb

Definitions

  1. To cut or scrape with a razor blade or something similar.

    • 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?"
    • "Never mind," Nishimura Blaine said as he razor-bladed the box open.
    • 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.
  2. To do something with extreme precision.

    • A sigh slipped between her teeth as she razor-bladed each syllable with her tongue.
  3. Alternative form of razor blade.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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