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handcuff
[ hand-kuhf ]
noun
- a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle:
The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
verb (used with object)
- to put handcuffs on.
- to restrain or thwart (someone) by or as if by handcuffing:
The amendments handcuffed the committee and prevented further action.
handcuff
/ ˈæԻˌʌ /
verb
- tr to put handcuffs on (a person); manacle
noun
- plural a pair of locking metal rings joined by a short bar or chain for securing prisoners, etc
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ·Իcܴڴ verb (used with object)
Example Sentences
"On the release day, they treated us brutally. They tightened the handcuffs and when they wanted to make us move they put our hands above our heads and pulled us," Mr Mushtaha said.
The military official denied any of the medics were handcuffed before they died and said they were not executed at close range, as some reports had suggested.
According to Leo Peak, a real estate agent at Peak Family Real Estate Group, many homeowners are currently feeling the "golden handcuffs" effect of being locked into their homes by historically low mortgage rates.
“You have deputies out there worried they’re going to get fired for putting handcuffs a little too tight on a suspect.”
He handcuffed himself to a federal building to bring attention to the plight of immigrants in detention, the first of about a dozen times he would be arrested for civil disobedience, Jimenez said.
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