Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A keen, razor-like edge; hence, any situation which is precarious and close to the verge of destruction: as, to stand on the razor-edge or razor's edge.
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Examples
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I frequented bars, stayed razor-edge thin, and was sort-of although I could be mistaken dating a drummer from a band called Otis Coyote.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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He drew it forth - it was fully two feet long -- and, to demonstrate its razor-edge, sliced a sheet of newspaper into many ribbons.
CHAPTER XL 2010
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I frequented bars, stayed razor-edge thin, and was sort-of although I could be mistaken dating a drummer from a band called Otis Coyote.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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I frequented bars, stayed razor-edge thin, and was sort-of although I could be mistaken dating a drummer from a band called Otis Coyote.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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The blade of the hatchet had been ground to razor-edge.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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I frequented bars, stayed razor-edge thin, and was sort-of although I could be mistaken dating a drummer from a band called Otis Coyote.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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I frequented bars, stayed razor-edge thin, and was sort-of although I could be mistaken dating a drummer from a band called Otis Coyote.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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Having spent all his life in cramped New England, where sharpness and shrewdness had been whetted to razor-edge on the harsh stone of meagre circumstance, he had found himself abruptly in the loose and free-and-easy West, where men thought in thousand-dollar bills and newsboys dropped dead at sight of copper cents.
THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010
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Plus modeling has become a safety net for many of the taller, larger-framed models who cannot maintain the razor-edge silhouette required, even with an eating disorder.
Leona Palmer: Big Girls, Real Food: Beauty, Health, and the American Diet 2010
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Plus modeling has become a safety net for many of the taller, larger-framed models who cannot maintain the razor-edge silhouette required, even with an eating disorder.
Leona Palmer: Big Girls, Real Food: Beauty, Health, and the American Diet 2010
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