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单词 hands-up
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hands-upadj.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)zʌp/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)zˌəp/, Canadian English /ˈhæn(d)zˌʌp/, South African English /ˈhæn(d)zˌʌp/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: hands up int.
Etymology: < hands up int. With sense 2 compare hands-upper n., hand-upper n., hand-up n. 2, and later hensopper n.
1. Canadian. Of a person: that robs or kidnaps at gunpoint (cf. hands up int. 2). rare (now historical).
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1892 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Daily Free Press 16 July 2/1 The kidnappers..did not scruple to enter her bedroom... This is the second time the smart ‘hands-up men’ have been bested within a year.
a1955 W. J. West Stagecoach & Sternwheel Days in Cariboo & Central B.C. (1985) 21 The ‘hands up’ men.
2. South African. Designating a Boer who surrendered to the British during the Boer War (1899–1902). rare. Cf. hands-upper n.
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1901 E. Hobhouse Rep. Visit to Camps of Women & Children in Cape & Orange River Colonies 4/1 There are nearly 2000 people in this one camp, of which some few are men—they call them ‘hands up’ men.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. 7/1 Trooper Long..was grabbed by the throat by a ‘hands-up’ prisoner, who threw down his rifle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hands-upv.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)zʌp/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)zˌəp/, South African English /ˈhæn(d)zʌp/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: hands up int.
Etymology: < hands up int.In South African use (compare e.g. quot. 1901 at sense 1) after Afrikaans hendsop, (now usually) hensop (beginning of the 20th cent. or earlier; < hands up int.). Compare hands-upper n.
Now rare.
1. intransitive. To put up one's hands in token of surrender; to surrender. Cf. hands up int. 2. Now chiefly South African.With South African use, cf. hands-upper n.
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society > armed hostility > defeat > be defeated [verb (intransitive)] > surrender
to cry (or say) creanta1250
to yield oneself creanta1250
to do (also put) oneself in (also to) a person's mercya1325
yieldc1330
recray1340
summisec1450
render1523
amain1540
surrender1560
to throw down one's arms (also weapons, etc.)1593
articulate1595
to yield (also bow oneself) to (also upon) mercy1595
to give grass1597
capitulate1601
to cry cravena1634
to lower or strike one's flag1644
bail1840
hands-up1879
kamerad1914
1879 Amer. Agriculturist Mar. 90/3 If..[an outlaw] comes upon you suddenly, and puts a pistol to your head before you have time to collect your thoughts, you will be very glad to hands up and keep quiet.
a1895 J. W. Hardin Life (1896) 46 I threw my pistol in his face and told him to ‘hands up’.
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’.
1929 J. 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.
1978 A. Brink Rumours of Rain 324 The whole lot of them hands-upping just like that.
2. transitive. To cause or force to surrender; to order (a person) to put his or her hands up in surrender.
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society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > cause to surrender
hands-up1923
1923 Daily Mail 9 Mar. 10 The Germans after ‘hands-upping’ Rumania proceeded literally to turn out their pockets.
1936 H. F. Trew Botha Treks 170 To his alarm and astonishment he was promptly ‘hands-upped’ by a German picket.
1958 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Mar. 1/1 He's hands-upping Hugh O'Brian..with an empty gun.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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