handcuff

[ US /ˈhændˌkəf/ ]
[ UK /hˈændkʌf/ ]

VERB

confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs
The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime

NOUN

shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs

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How To Use handcuff In A Sentence

Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row.
As he was walking past a ship chandler's shop, he was shocked to see handcuffs, leg shackles, and thumbscrews in the window.
The terrified family were handcuffed, had pillows pulled over their heads and were held at gunpoint overnight.
He is alleged to have resisted arrest after failing a breath test and was taken away in handcuffs. The Sun
Actual policemen brought the prisoners down to the police station in handcuffs and did the booking.
The prisoner told lawyers he was tortured using the strappado, in which a prisoner is suspended from a bar with handcuffs.
The three men and two women were arrested, handcuffed and held in police cells. Times, Sunday Times
The policeman snapped the handcuffs around her wrist.
They got out of their car and, without notice, put us under arrest and handcuffed us.
His wrists broke as he tried to catch himself, splintering under the weight of the senseless lunks of people handcuffed to him.

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