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fill one's hand

fill one's hand verb: to draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.

Verb

fill one's hand (third-person singular simple present fills one's hand, present participle filling one's hand, simple past and past participle filled one's hand)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.
    • "Now everybody fill his hand!" shouted Mr. Hickok, pulling his 8-inch six-shooters.1905, Alfred Henry Lewis, The Sunset Trail, published 2005, →ISBN, page 377
    • "He just looks at me and says: ‘Fill your hand stranger’ and hauls out an old rusty six shooter and I take off across Lincoln Park, bullets cutting all around me."1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 3
    Synonyms:
    slap leather

Synonyms of fill one's hand

Forms of fill one's hand

third-person singular presentfills one's hand
present participlefilling one's hand
past participlefilled one's hand
pastfilled one's hand

Questions about fill one's hand

What does fill one's hand mean?
Fill one's hand means to draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.
What part of speech is fill one's hand?
Fill one's hand is a verb.
What is the past tense of fill one's hand?
The past tense of fill one's hand is filled one's hand.

Words near fill one's hand in the dictionary

  1. fill line
  2. fill lines
  3. fill music
  4. fill one's boots
  5. fill one's face
  6. fill one's hand
  7. fill one's pants
  8. fill one's pockets
  9. fill or kill
  10. fill or kills
  11. fill out

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