Meaning of razor-blade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To cut or scrape with a razor blade or something similar.
2. To do something with extreme precision.
   figuratively

Examples

“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.”

“Warren razor-bladed the coke into fine lines on the glass-topped coffee table, snorting it up ferociously through a rolled up fifty pound note⟳, as though by doing so it would hit him harder and deeper and maybe take⟳ away some of the edge of his anger, which, even he knew, needed to be curbed.”

“It's a nude, somewhat Cubistic in feel⟳, and memorable primarily for its savage treatment: In an effort to show⟳ formal dynamics, Hofmann (one presumes) razor-bladed a section in the center to elevate the torso; poor draftsmanship by the student, it seems, caused the hips to be too low.”

“To occupy⟳ any spare⟳ moments left us, in the course of our four weeks' 'basic' we had to razor-blade all the varnish off these chairs.”

“A sigh⟳ slipped between her teeth as she razor-bladed each syllable with her tongue.”

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