jackknife-couteau de poche: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is jackknife? jackknife is couteau de poche

What is couteau de poche?

  • A large clasp knife.
  • Sports A dive in the pike position, in which the diver straightens out to enter the water hands first.
  • To fold or double (something or oneself) like a jackknife.
  • To cut or stab with a jackknife.
  • To bend or fold up like a jackknife: A truck that had jackknifed was blocking the road.
  • To form a 90° angle.

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