Buck knife
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A buck knife (or buck-knife) is a kind of folding lock-blade knife, meaning a knife whose blade folds into its handle, as with a common pocket knife, but locks into place when opened, so that it cannot close unless the release is pressed.
The term is a genericization of Buck Knife. Buck Knives is a leading American maker of knives of many sorts, but it is especially noteworthy for producing the first really successful folding lock-blade, introduced in 1964.[1] Folding lock-blade knives and "Buck Knife" thereby became strongly linked in the public mind, and the Buck design was much imitated, so that a buck knife, in common understanding, has come to mean to mean any folding lock-blade of like design, even while Buck Knife is yet a trademark and not limited to folding lock-blades.[2]
