Handcuff

Definitions: Handcuff

Handcuff

Noun

1. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs.

Verb

1. Confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime".

Date "handcuff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Synonyms: Handcuff

Synonyms: cuffs (n), handcuffs (n), handlock (n), cuff (v), manacle (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Prison	Bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples; vice, vise.
Restraint	Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Handcuff

English words defined with "handcuff": Handcuffed, Handcuffing. (references)

Specialty definitions using "handcuff": correction officer ♦ PATROL CONDUCTOR. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Exposing the Handcuff Kings (1914)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss: American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King & Prison Breaker (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Nepal	Overcrowding is common in prisons, and authorities sometimes handcuff or fetter detainees. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Handcuff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 48.00% of the time. "Handcuff" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	48%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	40%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (base form)	12%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	25	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "handcuff": handcuff-cases.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "handcuff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pranga (cuff, gyve, iron, irons, manacle, nippers, shackle, shackles). (various references)

Arabic		‏قيد (bind, bond, bridle, chain, check, confine, derestrict, enchain, entry, fetter, hold back, impose restrictions on, item, limit, limitation, manacle, qualify, record, register, restrain, restrict, restriction, rope, set bounds to, set down, shackle, tie, tie up). (various references)

Bulgarian		белезник. (various references)

Chinese		束以手�"� (Handcuffed, handcuffs). (various references)

Czech		spoutat (bind, enchain, enfetter, fetter, harness, manacle, pinion, shackle, tie), nasadit pouta, želízka (handcuffs). (various references)

Farsi		دست بندزدن(به), دست بنداهنین , بخو (Manacle). (various references)

Finnish		panna rautoihin (put in irons). (various references)

French		mettre les menottes. (various references)

German		handschellen anlegen (manacle). (various references)

Greek		χειροπέδη (handcuffs, manacle). (various references)

Hebrew		י�"ו� ית (manacle, muffle). (various references)

Hungarian		bilincs (bond, chain, gyve, handcuffs, irons, manacle, shackle, wristlet). (various references)

Indonesian		menggari (manacle, shackle), membelenggu (enchain, shackle), belenggu (gyvess, manacle, shackle, trammel). (various references)

Italian		ammanettare (manacle). (various references)

Korean		수갑을 채우십시�". (various references)

Manx		cur glish laue er. (various references)

Pig Latin		andcuffhay.(various references)

Portuguese		carrinho de mão (Barrow, pushcart, wheelbarrow). (various references)

Russian		наручник. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lisice (gyve, handcuffs, nipper). (various references)

Spanish		maniatar (hobble, pinion), esposar. (various references)

Swedish		handklove. (various references)

Thai		ใส่กุญแจมือ (manacle, shackle), กุญแจมือ (manacle, shackle). (various references)

Turkish		kelepçelemek (manacle, shackle), kelepçe takmak, kelepçe (bracelets, clamp, cleat, cuff, darbies, handcuffs, manacle, manacles, nippers, shackle, wristlet). (various references)

Ukranian		наручник, надівати наручники (manacle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "handcuff": handcuffed, handcuffing, handcuffs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Handcuff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anduff, handcuffery. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-f-f-h-n-u"
	-3 letters: adunc, chaff, chufa, chuff, dunch, nucha.
	-4 letters: caff, chad, cuff, daff, duff, faun, fund, hand, huff.
	-5 letters: aff, and, cad, can, cud, dah, duh, dun, fad, fan, fud, fun, had, hun, nah.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-f-f-h-n-u"
	+1 letter: handcuffs.
	+2 letters: handcuffed.
	+3 letters: handcuffing.
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