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flexicuffs

flexicuffs noun: disposable plastic handcuffs similar in appearance to cable ties.

Noun

flexicuffs pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) disposable plastic handcuffs similar in appearance to cable ties
    • The inquiry’s chair, Alex Gallacher, later looked up flexicuffs on an electronic device, and described them as “basically cable ties”, noting it would be very easy for Nichols to mistake them as such.2015 August 20, Helen Davidson, “Former Nauru guard says he did not see waterboarding of asylum seekers”, in The Guardian

Forms of flexicuffs

alternative formflex cuffs
alternative formflex-cuffs
alternative formflexi cuffs

Origin of flexicuffs

From flexible cuffs.

Questions about flexicuffs

What does flexicuffs mean?
Flexicuffs means disposable plastic handcuffs similar in appearance to cable ties.
What part of speech is flexicuffs?
Flexicuffs is a noun.

Words near flexicuffs in the dictionary

  1. flexibly
  2. flexibound
  3. flexicities
  4. flexicity
  5. flexicostate
  6. flexicuffs
  7. flexicurity
  8. flexicurve
  9. flexicurves
  10. flexid
  11. flexidisc

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