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fill one's hand

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.

US, idiomatic

Examples

“"Now everybody fill his hand!" shouted Mr. Hickok, pulling his 8-inch six-shooters.”
“"He just looks at me and says: ‘Fill your hand strangerand hauls out an old rusty six shooter and I take off across Lincoln Park, bullets cutting all around me."”
“"Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch," the old lawman cries, clamping the reins of his horse between his teeth and filling his own hands with six-gun and repeater.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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