Akimbo

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  • adverb. In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward.
  • adjective. Placed in such a way as to have the hands on the hips and the elbows bowed outward.
  • adjective. Being in a bent, bowed, or arched position.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Literally, in a sharp bend; at an acute angle; adjectively, bent; crooked: said of the arms when the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bent outward at an acute angle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
  • adverb. Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adverb. with hands on hips and elbows extending outward
  • adjective. (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body
  • Word Usage
    "It was in one of these that our word akimbo unexpectedly appeared more than 200 years earlier than the next citation in the 1600s."
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    crooked  
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