handcuff
Handcuffed inmate
Meanings
Noun
- One ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair.
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Origin
- 1640, from hand + cuff.
- Possibly an adaptation of Middle English handcops ("shackles for the hand, handcuffs"), from Old English handcops, from hand + cops, cosp, but due to lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention.
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