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hands up
Idioms and Phrases
A direction or order to hold one's hands high, as in Hands up or I'll shoot! This imperative is used by police officers and criminals so that they can see if someone is holding a weapon. [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
YouTube footage shows him goading people into singing Reef's Put Your Hands Up, and taking selfies with fans during the encore.
“I remember I just threw both hands up in the air like if I had just been boxing 12 rounds and it was the knockout I had been looking for.â€
But the record producer managed to free himself by lifting his hands "up and off the pipe" and ran out of the property, still wearing the handcuffs.
Wesley Yates threw his hands up in disbelief.
“I got a weird one too,†she added, before the episode cut to her in a confessional throwing her hands up in confusion.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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