Definitions

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  • noun Someone who uses a knife.

Etymologies

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knife +‎ -man

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Examples

  • "knifeman" (like a gunman in a parallel social universe).

    VDARE.com - Latest Articles 2009

  • Pc Lee Armstong,28, was due to stand trial at Bradford Crown court over a confrontation with a knifeman, who was alleged to have threatened a woman in Keighley, West Yorks.

    Speedwagon. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • The knifeman was pursued by a police helicopter and arrested in a nearby supermarket still in possession of the weapon used in the attack.

    GOTH DRESSED AS JOKER STABS BABIES IN BELGIUM, ANNIVERSARY HEATH LEDGER'S DEATH: KIM DE GELDER. WITH PICTURES. 2009

  • A few weeks ago in the UK, a knifeman inspired by The Shining lured two paramedics to his flat where he attempted to slash them up, Jack Nicholson style.

    Gregg Hurwitz: What Made Von Brunn Do It? 2009

  • JANIS: Other witnesses reported hearing the knifeman roaring and grunting as he slashed and stabbed his victims.

    CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2008 2008

  • If you want to lay down a memory of a route, for example, you might imagine that you are being chased along it by a demented knifeman rather than cruising it in the safety of your car.

    From the Department of What's-Wrong-With-This-Picture: fastfwd 2007

  • For a moment she did not know what he meant, then remembered the knifeman rushing forward.

    Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

  • For example, although the media had named John as a stabbing victim and published his photograph less than a year earlier, no one in Britain would ever be allowed to learn that he had tried to engineer his own execution that hot June day in Goose Green: "As far as the public in south Manchester are concerned there is at large … a crazed knifeman who murderously attacked a 14-year-old," said the newspaper lawyer.

    "U Want Me 2 Kill Him?" Bachrach, Judy 2005

  • He had been about to speak to her when the knifeman had charged in.

    Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

  • Blood flowed from the Bull Pizzle's chest and the knifeman howled in pain.

    The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

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