cuffing
Americannoun
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the act of putting handcuffs or other restraints on someone or of having them put on.
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the act of rolling one's shirt or pant cuffs up, or the resulting rolls of fabric.
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the act of entering into a romantic relationship (usually used in the phrase cuffing season).
Example Sentences
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It’s turtlenecks and quality sweaters, buying decorative gourds for an evening dinner party and coupling up for cuffing season, if not longer term.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
Dr. Genden also transplanted the cricoid, cartilage cuffing the trachea, supplanting Ms. Sein’s completely destroyed cricoid.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2021
If you go to a bar in New York during cuffing season, you will overhear long discussions about if “I should say ‘hi’ back?”
From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2016
Officer Jojo, as he is called here, and another cop are talking to and then cuffing a kid.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2016
He pushed himself forward and the wind came again, stronger now, cuffing the forest heads till they ducked and roared.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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