| 单词 | cuff |
| 释义 | cuff (once / 1264 pages) 1nv 2n 3v A cuff is the very end of a long sleeve or the rolled bottom of your jeans. You might prefer to wear a cuff on the bottom of your pants in order to show off your striped socks. One kind of cuff is at the end of your sleeve or trouser leg, and another is a type of jewelry you might wear around your wrist, like a wide gold cuff. You can also use the word cuff as shorthand for handcuff, the silver kind that police officers put on suspects' wrists during an arrest. The mid-fourteenth century version was cuffe, and it meant "mitten or glove," from the Medieval Latin cuffia, or "head covering. WORD FAMILYcuff: cuffed, cuffing, cuffs USAGE EXAMPLESThis is the spirit of dissent, whether beautifully modulated or off the cuff. Slate(Dec 26, 2016) In the visitors’ locker room, he joked with folks around him as an equipment man fastened his cuff links. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) Blood pressure measurements, for example, often rely on bulky cuffs around a patient’s arm and offer only a snapshot reading. Nature(Dec 07, 2016) 1 1n shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs Syn|Hyper handcuff, handlock, manacle bond, hamper, shackle, trammel a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) 2v confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs 2Syn|Hyper handcuff, manacle fetter, shackle restrain with fetters n the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper turnup trouser cuff a cuff on the bottoms of trouser legs lap, overlap a flap that lies over another part v hit with the hand Syn|Hyper whomp slap hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand |
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