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Synonyms for fist

a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)

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last week Posing with fistfuls of PS50 notes as he prepares to be a millionaire
They stormed banks and stuffed fistfuls of dinars--the now-worthless Iraqi currency--into their bags.
The explosion scattered money from the bank's safe, setting off looting and bloody fights over fistfuls of cash.
Fistfuls of fruit fly larvae (wormlike developing young) are digging tunnels all over the sweet flesh.
The Australian-born star supplements his meals with fistfuls of vitamins and Chinese herbs, avocado and olive oil every day.
The newest tech tycoons, they prophesied, would be left clutching fistfuls of worthless options.
Braces over one shoulder; sweat-stained tweed cap; bucket of white fertiliser slung from his crook'd arm; a hand flinging bright fistfuls over the field for hours this bank holiday, the whole place sleepy as Sunday.
You can start harvesting small quantities of leaves as soon as plants are 4 to 6 inches tall and robust looking; as they get larger, you can cut fistfuls.
Melanie and Stephen Jones, pictured at the arena, have bought fistfuls of tickets for the gig, with relatives, friends and colleagues out in force.
The piece ended with the cast hurling fistfuls of flowers toward the audience; eventually the air was thick with flying flora, some of which reached the back of the house.
1 Use the eyeball method (where each meal contains a piece of protein - like fish or chicken - the same size and width as your palm, a fist full of starchy carbs like pasta/rice, or two fistfuls of fruit or vegetables, and a drizzle of olive oil)
Says Doubletree salesperson Steve Tremewan: "The employees say the women were well-behaved, drank like fish, and handed over fistfuls of money."
Strung with fistfuls of pasta-colored clay, the giant Necklace, 1993, roped off much of the floor.
The Toon Army must be looking forward to this season about as much as a nine-month prostate exam, Mike Ashley snapping on the latex gloves, Boro are shedding quality in fistfuls, and West Brom's new boss will be wondering where they've hidden the goalscorers.