Meaning of knifeplay | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of fighting or cutting with a knife.
   uncountable
2. A sexual practice involving the use of knives, daggers, or swords for physical and mental stimulation.
   uncountable

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Examples

“Reinhart had finished his neat knifeplay, having transformed a half-pound of slab bacon into an accumulation of little strips measuring half an inch by an inch and a half.”

“"Can't either of you think? If we have to fight I want you to blary win. For that you need training and practice. Swordplay, knifeplay, bare-knuckle, staves. Archery. Trickery. Everything."”

“After a tense confrontation that almost lead to knifeplay, Lawrence recounted, "Mohammed Said and Abd el Kader then went away, breaking vengeance against me as a Christian."”

“When the professor turned out to be too warped even for my tastes — consensual knifeplay is one thing; drunken gunplay quite another […]”

“Michael's knifeplay had never aroused him, but that fact had never concerned Jonathan, for Michael had never insisted upon it.”

“Partly because I loved milder forms of knifeplay but had never taken it as far as I'd fantasized, but mostly because of her.”

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