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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