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hands-up, v.|ˈhændzʌp|
[f. the order hands up! (see hand n. 55).]
intr. To put up the hands in token of surrender. Also trans., to cause to surrender. So ˈhands-up n., the action of putting up the hands (in quot. attrib.); ˈhands-ˌupper, one who surrenders. Also ˈhand-up n., one who throws up his hands.
1901Comtemp. Rev. Mar. 327 A small patrol..went..to the farm of a ‘hands upper’, i.e., one who had surrendered his arms. 1901Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 5/4 They regard themselves as quite the aristocrats of the camp, and much superior to the ‘hands-uppers’, as they have delighted in calling the children of less obstinate patriots. 1901‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness 239 The refugee camps within the British lines, wherein dwell the hundreds of Dutchmen who have surrendered, or ‘hands-upped’. 1902Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. 7/1 Trooper Long..was grabbed by the throat by a ‘hands-up’ prisoner, who threw down his rifle. 1902Appleton's Ann. Cycl. 629/2 The Boers who had accepted British sovereignty at various times since the fall of Bloemfontein and Pretoria, contemptuously called ‘handups’ by the others. 1915Observer 4 Apr. 7/2 We have now a case of ‘hands-upping’, the first in this war, by a whole unit of Germans. 1923Daily Mail 9 Mar. 10 The Germans after ‘hands-upping’ Rumania proceeded literally to turn out their pockets. 1928Observer 17 June 7 Those faint-hearted ones who are ‘hand-uppers’ in regard to aviation. 1929J. Buchan Courts of Morning iii. 307 They hands-upped like lambs. We've gotten a nice little bag―fourteen hundred and seventy-three combatant soldiers. |