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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
handcuff .
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Examples
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(Soundbite of bell) SAGAL: A man in Washington State who escaped from a police car while handcuffed is being charged with escape and with blanking.
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Why, only yesterday the desperate villain handcuffed the very sheriff in the very courtyard!
The Hidden Hand 1888
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Or, Three - one to screw in the bulb, and two to listen to him brag about the What do you call a handcuffed man?
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'If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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If you can show that his hands are behind his back, and he is handcuffed, that is where you get brutality.
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"Schumer made a show of clasping his hands and accused the officials of being ideologically 'handcuffed' to the far right — which the officials found highly insulting."
You Could Bank on It Dennis K. Berman 2010
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So, you seem to -- I may interpret this wrong -- but you seem to feel that government is kind of handcuffed in this situation.
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"Schumer made a show of clasping his hands and accused the officials of being ideologically 'handcuffed' to the far right — which the officials found highly insulting."
You Could Bank on It Dennis K. Berman 2010
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"Schumer made a show of clasping his hands and accused the officials of being ideologically 'handcuffed' to the far right — which the officials found highly insulting."
You Could Bank on It Dennis K. Berman 2010
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If conducting multiple inquiries without ever informing commissioners meant that the staff was "handcuffed," we shudder to think what Ms. Schapiro's new hands-off management will mean for investors.
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