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Answer for the clue ""Hell if I know" gesture ", 5 letters:
shrug

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n. 1 A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference. 2 A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. vb. (context ambitransitive English) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, ...

Usage examples of shrug.

Although he suspected the accusatory look resulted more from frustration than anger, when Marguerite merely shrugged and laid back against her pillow, Germaine concluded they had taxed her limited strength enough for one day.

Janaki glanced at the guns, then arched an eyebrow at the artillerist, and Mesaion shrugged.

The big, fair-haired foot baller smiled across at Sarah apologetically, then shrugged his wide shoulders.

De Batz, with a gesture of contempt indicative also of complete self-satisfaction and unalterable self-belief, shrugged his broad shoulders.

Whereupon Heeber whipped off his apron, shrugged his meat-cleaver shoulders into a tweed coat, jumped up in the air and slid down inside his raincoat, slung on his beardy cap, and thrust us at the door.

The girl gave him a helpless, half-amused shrug of her eyebrows, and Rudy gallantly stooped to gather the bearskin in his arms.

Tommy said, casually shrugging big shoulders inside a baggy silk blouson that had gone out of fashion a couple of years previously.

So that it was with a mutual shrug for this display of personality that Brat and Bee greeted each other.

The innkeeper stared at Brett, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands indicating that he did not understand him.

With nightfall the full weight of his responsibility fell across his back like a leaden yoke, and try as he might, Brine could not shrug it off.

But Brushy Jim was unpredictable, and he had a hair-trigger temper, so she decided that a shrug was the safest response.

She took a look inside, shook her head, and began to shrug her burka over her shoulders where she stood, keeping her back to us.

I saw the sheen of her olive skin and the curve of her breasts as she shrugged her burka over her head and shoulders.

The atrocities of biological experimentation can no more be dismissed with a shrug of incredulity than one can sneer at the agonies of Gerard or Damiens because they, too, suggest a heartlessness in the men of that time which our finer civilization can hardly conceive.

For a moment Sinon toyed with the idea of blackmail, then he laughed, shrugged, tossed an expiatory drachma into the briskly foaming wake as an offering to Poseidon.