The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handcuff \Hand"cuff`\ (h[a^]nd"k[u^]f`), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Handcuffed (-k[u^]ft`); p. pr. & vb. n. Handcuffing.]
To apply handcuffs to; to manacle.
--Hay (1754).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: handcuff)
Usage examples of "handcuffed".
She had run just as fast as her legs could carry her — Jessie Mahout Burlingame, also known as The Amazing Gingerbread Girl, the last wonder of a dubious age, survivor of the day the sun had gone out, now handcuffed to the bed and able to run no more.
She was aware that this voice could have picked a better time to break its silence — she was, after all, out here on the deserted north shore of Kashwakamak Lake, handcuffed to the bedposts, and wearing only a skimpy pair of nylon panties — but she still found herself admiring it.
She could see herself sitting there on the witness stand and saying, 'So there I was, handcuffed to the bedpost and wearing nothing but some underwear from Victoria's Secret and a smile, but I changed my mind at the last minute, and Gerald knew it, and that makes it rape.
She guessed the reason she had felt cold was that she was wearing nothing but a pair of bikini panties, and her neck and shoulders hurt because she was handcuffed to the bedposts and her bottom had slid down the bed when she fainted.
She saw herself lying here, handcuffed to the bed with Gerald dead on the floor beside and below her.
A real shame, too — nothing cheered up a handcuffed woman more reliably than a little Country Morning Rose Blusher.
All of this was an act of pure impulse, the missile sought for, found, and thrown before she had time to ensure the failure of the shot by reflecting on how unlikely it was that a woman who had gotten a D in the archery mod of her two-year college phys ed requirement could possibly hit a dog with an ashtray, especially when the dog was fifteen feet away and the hand she was throwing with happened to be handcuffed to a bedpost.
Two sips of water through the leaky straw probably wouldn't spell the difference between remaining handcuffed to the bed and finding a way to wriggle out of this mess on her own — let alone between life and death — but getting those last couple of sips might occupy her mind when and if it tried to turn to its own morbid devices again.
It was only the two of you who knew that, at the end, Gerald could get it up with any reliability only if you were handcuffed to the bed, Sort of makes you wonder if someone played a few little games with him on the day of the eclipse, doesn't it?
Gilbert and Sullivan Do Bondage, I'm just a handcuffed lay-dee in the King's Nay-vee.
She had explored all her options and she was still America's Handcuffed Sweetheart.
Now she could hear a clapping shutter as well as the banging door, but these sounds were somewhere else, in some other world where wives were not handcuffed and husbands did not refuse to listen and night-creatures did not stalk.
Or maybe it was just that she hadn't come to the right case histories yet — the ones dealing with handcuffed women who were forced to watch as their husbands became Purina Dog Chow.
Whether they were or not, the fact remained that she did remember her hours handcuffed to the bed — from the click of the key in the second lock right up to that final freezing moment when she had looked into the rearview mirror and seen that the thing in the house had become the thing in the back seat, she remembered it all.
It doesn't surprise me a bit that the idea of having sex with a woman handcuffed to the bed lit up all his dials.