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handcuff

/hand-kuhf/US // ˈhændˌkʌf //UK // (ˈhændˌkʌf) //

手铐,铐上手铐,铐住,手拷

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to put handcuffs on.
    • : to restrain or thwart by or as if by handcuffing: The amendments handcuffed the committee and prevented further action.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbhamper
Forms: handcuffs

Examples

  • As two officers then try and put the girl—who is now in handcuffs—in the car, she repeatedly screams, “I want my Dad.”

  • Others wore tactical gear or brought zip ties, which can be used as handcuffs, officials said.

  • He wore a Taser holstered to his hip and gripped a bunch of zip-tie handcuffs in one hand.

  • After deputies removed Boney in handcuffs, the judge withdrew the contempt charge but said the publisher still had to be escorted from the building.

  • Member Margaret Lorber said she simply cannot accept the idea of guns and handcuffs in schools.

  • Tihen had insisted he was in her lap as she struggled to handcuff him.

  • But she surprised these cops just as she had the officers back in December, when she managed to wiggle free of a handcuff.

  • There are psychological chains and restraints that are so much stronger than any steel chain or handcuff.

  • Police say that Thomas resisted arrested, so they had to handcuff her and forced her to the ground.

  • Court documents say she was nude with a handcuff still attached to her wrist.

  • And keep your eyes on me; if I act in the least peculiar, handcuff me—but don't knock me out.

  • Bill said that he thought that bruin was about to make up his mind to let us take off that handcuff.

  • He unwound the rope which he had brought along and secured one circle of a double handcuff to his left wrist.

  • A white mark, which slowly changed to red, showed where Delaney had clamped the handcuff down to its last notch.

  • "Why, he threatened to handcuff me and take me to jail if I didn't tell him all about Mr. Whitmore's death," complained Collins.