A razor having a long blade set in a handle, usually folding like a penknife.
〈英〉折叠剃刀
North American term straight razor
Example sentencesExamples
The prosecuting counsel held up two vicious-looking, cut-throat razors for everyone in a packed Kingston Magistrates' court to see.
A mugger who slashed a man with a cut-throat razor after he chased him through the streets of Bradford has been warned he faces a long jail sentence.
The local men always had the barber shave them in that period, with the cut-throat razor as the stainless steel Gillette or Wilkinson blades were not around then and Philishaves were not very plentiful yet.
A disabled man was today being hunted by detectives after he failed to appear in court to be sentenced for slashing a have-a-go hero with a cut-throat razor.
This little ditty oft quoted by my granddad while shaving with his cut-throat razor came winging its way from out of my dim and distant past.
Although the Italians are famous for their hairdressing skills, I prefer not to get my hair cut in Italy because they often show off by doing it with cut-throat razors or perform some unnecessary extra service.
At this point I open my flick-knife or cut-throat razor.
He was so hard - he had two little pockets sewn into the end of his coat sleeves… And in those little pockets he hid two razor sharp, cut-throat razors.
If they are so bloody good, why don't they make cut-throat razors with serrated edges?
The cut-throat razor hovers inches above his neck for a little too long.
But I have this perverse desire to be shaved with a cut-throat razor - by an expert.
Visually, it's full of wonderful detail: bubbling Bialetti's on the stove; lovely lettering adorning cinemas and public buildings; heavy revolvers, cut-throat razors and more gloomy, smoky, rain-soaked streets.
She said: ‘Some customers who remember getting their hair cut at the shop when they were children, have even been bringing in old cut-throat razors and other items that have gone on display in the window.’
I paused as he put down the clippers and picked up his razor - a steel cut-throat razor like something out of a fifties gangster movie.
Barber Pete Baugh, who shaves customers with a traditional cut-throat razor, says the cream is ‘smashing stuff’ and he uses it every day.
The hairdresser massaged Peter's scalp during the wash, and was very careful using the cut-throat razor to tidy up.
And as I lay back in the seat looking at the cut-throat razor in his hand, I thought, ‘ooh, this is new’.
‘Hot towels, massage and the art of using a cut-throat razor safely,’ says smoothie Shaz.
In the old days of cut-throat razors, informers were punished with the ‘mark of the nark’.
The most emotionally intense love song in the piece is the rapturous hymn delivered by Sweeney to his precious cut-throat razors.