Handcuff

Quick meaning: Handcuff is a noun meaning (rarely singular) One ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair.

Meaning

(rarely singular) One ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To apply handcuffs to someone.
2. (transitive, figuratively) to restrain or restrict.

Example Sentences

Dang, I’m handcuffed by these regulations. I’d like to help but it’d be illegal.

If he were a king, as his swagger and opera-singing occasionally suggested, he would stretch the constitution any way he wanted. In fact, as he admitted with a grin, it handcuffed him.

After all, since our marriage has proved a childless one, the only reason for our submitting to be handcuffed to one another, now that our hearts are no longer in the arrangement, is gone.

Conservative influencer Nick Sortor is handcuffed Thursday night by a police officer outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, a bystander video shows; the video does not show events leading up to the arrest.

Word Forms

• handcuffs
• handcuffing
• handcuffed

Synonyms for handcuff

Depending on context, synonyms include manacle, wristlet, cuffs, handlock, handcuffs, cuff.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include manacle, handlock, cuff, cuffs, wristlet, bracelets.

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