slipjoint (English, noun)
expansion: slipjoint (plural slipjoints)
Senses:
glosses: 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
glosses: A knife or other tool with such a joint; usually a pocketknife.
tags: metonymically
Forms:
form: slipjoints
tags: plural