Definition of fist
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Examples of fist in a Sentence
He pounded his fist on the table in anger.
She pounded on the door with both fists.
He defiantly shook his fist at the policeman.
Recent Examples of fist from the Web
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Cables and screwdrivers cover every corner of a partitioned room where different kids build new robots each week, making cardboard mazes to test their robot trucks or duck their heads as fist-sized drones whiz by.
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Apply a tourniquet about four to five finger widths above the jab site and ask the person to make a fist, which makes veins more prominent.
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Some LCCs, such as Scoot, owned by Singapore Airlines and Jetstar, owned by Australia’s Qantas, using similar tactics to Norwegian, are making a fist of low-cost long-haul flights.
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To the thump of the bass, three students pound their fists and slam their feet into their personal 150-pound boxing bag.
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And on the worst days, the salt and pepper shakers or shoe or phone thrown at me from across the room, the fists and terrible words.
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That fist squeezing motion could be a reference to Lil from Fire Walk with Me, the weird, silent lady who communicated clues via an odd interpretive dance.
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Some started bobbing up and down, punching the air in front of them, while others tapped a rhythm (off-beat, usually) against their thighs while the rest threw up hands or fists.
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Barry Devonside, whose 18-year-old son, Christopher, was among those killed, pumped his fist after the indictments were made public.
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Origin and Etymology of fist
Middle English, from Old English fȳst; akin to Old High German fūst fist, Polish pięść, and probably to Old English fīf five
fist
Definition of fist
transitive verb
1 : to grip with the fist : handle
2 : to clench into a fist
Recent Examples of fist from the Web
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The militant attacks, and the state's iron-fisted response, have in turn fed a deepening sense of political polarization in Turkey.
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The potential conflict first came into focus shortly before Trump was elected, when the Philippines’ iron-fisted president, Rodrigo Duterte, named the Trump Organization’s partner on the Manila real estate venture his top trade envoy.
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During Tuesday’s opener against the Jazz, Green barely reacted when Gobert two-fisted him out of bounds in the second half.
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The potential conflict first came into focus shortly before Trump was elected, when the Philippines' iron-fisted president, Rodrigo Duterte, named the Trump Organization's partner on the Manila real estate venture his top trade envoy.
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Rather than being greeted as an honest attempt to reach out to a voting group that overwhelmingly dislikes him, the taco bowl post was widely mocked as an obvious, ham-fisted pander.
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First Known Use of fist
1607
FIST Defined for English Language Learners
fist
playDefinition of fist for English Language Learners
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: the hand with its fingers bent down into the palm
FIST Defined for Kids
fist
playDefinition of fist for Students
: the hand with the fingers bent tight into the palm
Medical Dictionary
fist
playMedical Definition of fist
: the hand clenched with the fingers doubled into the palm and the thumb doubled inward across the fingers
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See words that rhyme with fist Spanish Central: Translation of fist Nglish: Translation of fist for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of fist for Arabic speakers
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