Meaning of darbies | Babel Free

Definitions

handcuffs

UK, plural, plural-only, slang

Examples

“Who's afraid of him, except the old governor who daresn't catch him and put him in double-darbies, as he deserves, but lets him go about kidnapping people […]”

“And he says, 'I'll go along quiet, Bobby,' he says, 'without the darbies,' he says.”

“Second watch: (Produces handcuffs) Here are the darbies.”

“Sentry, are you there? / Just ease this darbies at the wrist, and roll me over fair, / I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.”

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