knifeplay en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈnaɪf(ˌ)pleɪ/ (General-American)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From knife + play.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The act of fighting or cutting with a knife.
"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."
2009, Robert V. S. Redick, The Ruling Sea, Del Ray, published 2011, →ISBN, page 138: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."
2013, Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Knopf, →ISBN: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.
1981, Thomas Berger, Reinhart's Women, Open Road, published 2013, →ISBN:
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(uncountable) A sexual practice involving the use of knives, daggers, or swords for physical and mental stimulation.
When the professor turned out to be too warped even for my tastes — consensual knifeplay is one thing; drunken gunplay quite another […]
2009, Quince Mountain, “Cowboy for Christ”, in Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau, editors, Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 116:Michael's knifeplay had never aroused him, but that fact had never concerned Jonathan, for Michael had never insisted upon it.
2009, Erastes, Transgressions, Running Press, →ISBN, page 318:Partly because I loved milder forms of knifeplay but had never taken it as far as I'd fantasized, but mostly because of her.
2014, D. L. King, She Who Must Be Obeyed, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 106:
Translations (2)
fi puukkohippaset (act of fighting or cutting with a knife) · fi puukkotappelu (act of fighting or cutting with a knife)