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cuff
noun as in beating with hands
Example Sentences
About two dozen family members and friends watched as he walked into the courtroom with his hands cuffed in front of him and his legs shackled.
He had a prepared transcript about "law and order" but spent most of the hour talking off the cuff about his grievances against the justice system he believes did him wrong.
Officials dismissed Trump's remarks as "off the cuff" and a "political statement", adding that they were "uncalled-for" given the good relations between the two nations.
"I walked away and then all of a sudden I was surrounded by six security guards. And then from that point, a police officer arrested me and put the cuffs on."
“Helen Fielding said, almost off the cuff, ‘Mark Darcy’s dead in this one,’” Morris told Salon over Zoom a few weeks before the film’s release.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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