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cuffs

US // (kʌfs) //

袖口,袖扣,袖套,袖带

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : informal short for handcuffsSee handcuff

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Examples

  • For years, Cuomo gave me a hard time every time we crossed paths about whether I had cuffs or pleats.

  • The entire process of preplanning and printing the hand, brackets, and cuffs takes just over a day.

  • Bary raps about a life filled with hardships, a life without love and spent “evading the cuffs.”

  • Then Molly gets the call, which is more how it would be in real life than the version where she snaps the cuffs on at the end.

  • The last to take the runway was a shimmering gold, high-low gown with two elbow length cuffs, a thick choker, and heeled mules.

  • There are no chains to my prison, no steel cuffs to gall the limbs, no guards to threaten and cow me.

  • Locked in his office, he is occupied from morning till evening in the manufacture of shirt-fronts, collars, and cuffs of paper.

  • She dressed in simple lines and quiet tones, dark blues and black, with only a broad lace collar and cuffs in neat relief.

  • Harvey glanced rather contemptuously at the lean, attenuated arm that the other displayed, where he had rolled his cuffs back.

  • I suppose I interrupted Scott at some critical performance, for he came to me with his coat-cuffs turned up and no wristbands on.