Crossword clues for cuffed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cuff \Cuff\ (k?f), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cuffed (k?ft); p. pr. & vb. n. Cuffing.] [Cf. Sw. kuffa to knock, push,kufva to check, subdue, and E. cow, v. t. ]
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To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
--Shak.They with their quills did all the hurt they could, And cuffed the tender chickens from their food.
--Dryden. To buffet. ``Cuffed by the gale.''
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: cuff)
WordNet
adj. struck with especially the open hand; "hung his head like a cuffed and chastised child"; "wondered which was the worse punishment, her slapped face or her injured feelings" [syn: slapped]
Usage examples of "cuffed".
Conjurer was triple cuffed and double shackled, two officers pulled the man into a sitting position on the floor.
He quickly cuffed her and then turned to David Dale, who was struggling to his knees amid the crushed roses, writhing and howling in agony.
Lester Botts up to the door, hands cuffed in front of him, which was definitely contrary to procedure, and escorted him inside.
I was lying down, one hand cuffed to the vertical pipe and no way to get any real leverage with the other.
But then, lying sidewise with one hand cuffed, could I lift the radiator enough to separate the two pipe segments and let me slip the cuff through the gap?
His depilated nudity, as he sat on a cold metal chair with his hands cuffed behind his back, obviously embarrassed him.
Frank Bellarosa was not as eloquent with his hands cuffed, but I understood him.
Bellarosa holding his cuffed hands up, clenched together like a victorious prizefighter.
As Lucy ran forward and cuffed Garrett, Sachs turned to the hill where Mason had been shooting from.
She cuffed him with his own handcuffs and ripped the phone from the wall.
Sachs recalled noting when she searched his room that he had no jeans, only cuffed slacks.
He saw she was cuffed and noticed Garrett in the window, peering out angrily, holding a pistol.
There was one more rider, a middle-aged black man with his feet lashed to the stirrups and his hands cuffed before him, with the chain of the handcuffs through a ring on the horn of his saddle.
The black man was sitting slumped in the saddle, resting his cuffed hands on the horn and a good deal of his weight on those.
What buildings I was trundled through, what men I saw passing before me and what others with whom I was cuffed, all of them and all of it were a mottled, technicolored panorama.