jimmy blade

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    A colloquial reference to a Bowie knife, a fixed blade, as opposed to a switch blade, knife named after the infamous knifefighter Jim Bowie, who was killed at the Battle of the Alamo in Texas in 1836.

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    Bowie knife by Tim Lively, March 2009, is licensed under CC BY-SA.

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    References

     
    Flayderman, Norm
    2004 The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend. Lincoln, RI: Andrew Mowbray.