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