Verb (used with object) : to cuff a pair of trousers. From Dictionary.com.
I kind of cuffed him across the head with Coleman’s surveillance file. From Wordnik.com. [Consent to Kill]
Holding him by the collar, he cuffed his ears soundly. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Unseen hands cuffed and pushed them into the sun-ship. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Sammy saluted left-'anded and she cuffed him unmerciful. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917] Reference
Does the man think I'm a child to be cuffed into obedience?. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
He cuffed the boy through the door and sent him flying home. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
He took a set of cuffs from his pocket and cuffed Nickolai. From Wordnik.com. [Hat Shop Girls] Reference
Jud promptly cuffed him back to the gate and bade him wait there. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Amilcare, with an effort, stretched out his hand and cuffed at it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
She caught them together by their collars and cuffed them soundly. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
He spent 15 days with his hands cuffed and his feet bound together. From Wordnik.com. [Migrants Are Prey In Mexico's Deadly Violence] Reference
He was cuffed in corners by the maternal hand, but he held his own. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
He thought it would be wonderful and wasn't sure why mom cuffed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Head] Reference
He got poked, and pushed, and cuffed, and tripped up, and laughed at. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
"A minute ago a tandem cuffed my back wheel," said Miss Reid, coming up. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
They had also cuffed and frisked a few men and taken two men into custody. From Wordnik.com. [War Stories: Road to Anarchy] Reference
The big man held Drew tight to the wall and cuffed him with his other hand. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
They kicked and cuffed him around until one of the men walked over and said. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective] Reference
Wrists and ankles cuffed, he was thrown into a truck and driven to an open field. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Of Impunity?] Reference
So the kidnappers cuffed her volunteers 'hands, lined them up and shot them dead. From Wordnik.com. [Running Scared: Afghan Candidates Risk Their Lives] Reference
I tried to say, but he cuffed me with the other hand, harder, if that were possible. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
He smiled with an air of such superior knowledge that I very nearly cuffed his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
She was hand-cuffed, and, her feet being tied together, she was placed in the wagon. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
Before Gatta, 17, knew it, the Americans had slipped a hood over his head and cuffed his hands. From Wordnik.com. ['We Just Want to Live'] Reference
She patted them all round with a beautiful impartiality, cuffed the Great Dane for trampling on. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
In the third prison, a guard came to the door and blindfolded and cuffed me and took me down the hallway. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A: 'I Said, &Quot;Please, God, Don't Kill Me&Quot;'] Reference
As I was recovering, he slapped me quite hard on the head and then cuffed my shoulders and slapped my kneecaps. From Wordnik.com. [My Meeting With A Medicine Man] Reference
Salim Awadh Salim sat on a wooden chair, his hands cuffed tightly behind his back, his feet tied together with rope. From Wordnik.com. [Testimony] Reference
Molly took off a silver necklace, and handed it to her mother before sheriff's deputies cuffed her to lead her to jail. From Wordnik.com. [Sentenced to Live] Reference
Two agents escorted Anna, her hand cuffed to the side bar of the gurney, as a paramedic held the oxygen mask to her face. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.29: Without a Fight] Reference
Before they were able to get him cuffed and thoroughly searched, Officer Mehserle did not know whether Oscar Grant was armed or not. From Wordnik.com. [Ex-Cop Faces Trial In Racially Charged Murder Case] Reference
Sure, the five cuffed contestants eat, swim, sleep (but don't bathe) together for four days, all while manacled at the wrists and ankles. From Wordnik.com. [When 'Chains Of Love' Become A Chain Of Fools] Reference
Mr. PETER BILES (Reporter, BBC): She simply said the two men came to her room late at night after the dinner and gave her a cuffed pouch. From Wordnik.com. [Naomi Campbell Testifies In War Crimes Trial] Reference
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