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  • 21fist — [[t]fɪ̱st[/t]] fists 1) N COUNT Your hand is referred to as your fist when you have bent your fingers in towards the palm in order to hit someone, to make an angry gesture, or to hold something. Angry protestors with clenched fists shouted their… …

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  • 22fist */*/ — UK [fɪst] / US noun [countable] Word forms fist : singular fist plural fists your hand when your fingers are closed tightly He banged the table with his fist. clench your fist (= squeeze your fingers closed): She was clenching her fists with the… …

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  • 23fist — /fɪst / (say fist) noun 1. the hand closed tightly, with the fingers doubled into the palm. 2. Colloquial the hand. 3. Colloquial a person s handwriting. 4. Printing the index sign. See index (def. 6). –verb (t) 5. to strike with the fist. 6. to …

  • 24fist — n. & v. n. 1 a tightly closed hand. 2 sl. handwriting (writes a good fist; I know his fist). 3 sl. a hand (give us your fist). v.tr. 1 strike with the fist. 2 Naut. handle (a sail, an oar, etc.). Phrases and idioms: make a good (or poor etc.)… …

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  • 25Fist — is a sign of defiance in some cultures.It can refer to: * In falconry, the hand covered by a heavy glove, on which the hawk perches * Sometimes used instead of hand when referring to clumsy handwriting * F.I.S.T. , a 1978 film * Fisting, the act… …

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  • 26fist — fist1 /fist/, n. 1. the hand closed tightly, with the fingers doubled into the palm. 2. Informal. the hand. 3. Informal. a person s handwriting. 4. Print. index (def. 8). v.t. 5. to make (one s hand) into a fist. 6. to grasp in the fist. [b …

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  • 27fist — noun a person s hand when the fingers are bent in towards the palm and held there tightly. verb 1》 strike with the fist. 2》 (also fist fuck) vulgar slang penetrate (a person s anus or vagina) with one s fist. Phrases make a fist of (or at)… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 28fist — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fȳst; akin to Old High German fūst fist, Polish pięść, and probably to Old English fīf five Date: before 12th century 1. the hand clenched with the fingers doubled into the palm and the thumb… …

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  • 29fist — fistula * * * fist fist n the hand clenched with the fingers doubled into the palm and the thumb doubled inward across the fingers …

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  • 30fist — [OE] Like finger, fist seems etymologically to be a reference to the number of fingers on the hand. It comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *fūstiz (source also of German faust and Dutch vuist). This may represent an earlier *fungkhstiz, which… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins