jackknife , also: jack-knife

The weight of his upper body held him in a jackknife position.

He doubled up like a jackknife and rose into the air.

I took out my jackknife and cut through the screen at the hook.

There was enough height to allow him to jackknife before he went in.

In doing so, they had found the jackknife bearing Frank's name.

He got a jackknife from his pocket and cut the sweet in half.

I found a trail up above Jackknife last spring, and maybe that had something to do with it.

He opened his jackknife and reached down into the pit.

She saw a man carrying an open jackknife with a 4 3/4-inch blade.

"You've got to do something, even if it is with a jackknife!

He stabbed one with the blade of his jackknife and bit off half.

From the hill beyond Jackknife a man had watched through binoculars his every move.

In technical terms one says that the jackknife estimate is consistent.

His Adam's apple comes halfway up, and then does a jackknife.

We figure it was a folding pocket knife, a jackknife.

Don't cut yourself with your jackknife because you might bleed to death.

It was inspired by earlier work on the jackknife.

On the wall was a photograph of an old jackknife rig, spouting oil.

On the third try Frank succeeded, and with a jackknife movement, pulled himself up into the bridge.

Extensions of the jackknife to allow for dependence in the data have been proposed.

The trail to the east pasture led through Jackknife.

He could feel the car start to jackknife.

She watched Honey do a perfect jackknife off the board and cut cleanly through the water.

Patrick used his jackknife to cut five pine boughs, one for each of us.

He took a jackknife from his pocket and sawed through the ropes that held her.

Engineers have tried a number of ways to control jackknifing.

She grabbed his hand, turned away from him, and jackknifed forward.

Jackknifing into a sitting position, she glanced around the room.

Then the huge young man jackknifed himself in another great bow.

She pushed her long hair back and jackknifed into the ocean.

It was an animal sound of agony, and he jackknifed forward.

He jackknifed his trailer and the whole thing went up in flames.

He rolled to his side, jackknifing back to face the door of the tin building.

He jackknifed in the air, scored 29 points and drew so much attention that someone had to be open.

At first he thought it was a tractor-trailer jackknifed across the road.

The first two cars jackknifed on the tracks about 750 feet beyond the crossing.

His upper body jackknifed past the tree and then jerked to a stop.

After a minute or so, she jackknifed in a surface dive and went straight down.

He jackknifed, gasping, and the gun fell out of his hand.

Pain jackknifed through her skull; in the next instant, she felt nothing at all.

The relatives suddenly jumped back as the reporter jackknifed over.

Lori jackknifed to the edge of the seat, eyes flashing.

With a crash that shook the room Bond's body jackknifed out of bed and on to the floor.

She jackknifed to a sitting position, trying to make out any silhouettes on the other side of the curtain.

She jackknifed to a sitting position and glared down at him, her face still wet with tears.

I jackknifed forward to cough it out of my lungs and pitched right on over.

The guy jackknifed with an ugly grunt and pitched to the ground.

So, drawing a deep breath, she jackknifed forward and plunged beneath the water.

Truck jackknifed, went over the rail, and landed on the Interstate.

She groaned again, her body slowly jackknifing under his caressing.