A type of joint for a folding knife, involving a spring that helps hold the blade open against some pressure but does not lock it open in the sense of any positive engagement by the parts of any lock mechanism; it is thus a non-locking type of joint.
A knife or other tool with such a joint; usually a pocketknife.
Origin
slip + joint
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