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Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists close together. They comprise two parts, linked together by a chain, a hinge, or rigid bar. Each half has a rotating arm which engages with a ratchet that prevents it from being opened once closed around a person's wrist. Without the key, the handcuffs cannot be removed and so the handcuffed person is unable to move his or her wrists more than a few centimetres/inches apart, making many tasks difficult or impossible. This is usually done to prevent suspected criminals from escaping police custody.
Handcuffs (Lisice) is a Croatian film directed by Krsto Papić. It was released in Yugoslavia in 1969.
In 1999, a poll of Croatian film critics found it to be one of the best Croatian films ever made.
Usage examples of "handcuffs".
Saw our nude beauty in handcuffs quietly reading Dickens or something.
I detoured on my way up the stairs to pick up three pairs of handcuffs from the equipment pack.
Her eyes rested briefly on the handcuffs, but she finally tore them away to gaze at me.
Karen watched in fascination as I slipped the steel handcuffs around Amy’s wrists.
She trembled and I could tell that she wanted to return the embrace but the handcuffs behind her back prevented it.
The handcuffs she wore almost looked like jewelry adorning her wrists.
I slipped a pair of handcuffs onto her and she gasped as the cold metal touched her skin.
I turned them around, one at a time and changed their handcuffs from behind their back to their fronts.
With the handcuffs interfering and the way I’d tied the knots in the tether, Kathleen was going to have a hell of a time even reaching the knots, much less loosening them.
I had her raise her hands and I released her handcuffs letting them dangle from her left wrist.
Not quite believing that I was leading a pair of nude women by their throats, their hands in handcuffs down the store aisle towards them.
Sagging against her handcuffs, pulling Kathleen’s arms up painfully through the tether.
With the weight of Jane and Christi removed from the other end of the tether, Nicole had lowered her arms, raising the other pair of handcuffs a few extra feet in the air at the other end of the rope.
I slipped handcuffs over their slender wrists, connecting Christi’s right hand to Jane’s left.
You think I’d be standing here without my clothes and in handcuffs if it wasn’t?