Definitions

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  • noun plastic handcuffs

Etymologies

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Blend of plastic and cuffs

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Examples

  • And so, one by one or two by two, the waiting police officers with their belts full of plasticuffs handcuffed the civilly-disobedient protestors and deposited them in the back of two police vans.

    AMCHA protest against Iran ends in mass arrests | Jewschool 2007

  • A lieutenant called over to adjudicate decided, Al-Janabi says, to place him under arrest and bound his hands in plasticuffs.

    Baghdad's Checkpoint Madness 2007

  • But if you point this out, they will wrestle you to the ground, put plasticuffs on your wrists, taser you and have you charged with air rage when you land.

    Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry 2010

  • And if you politely request that he stops interrupting and shuts his goddamned cake hole for five minutes, they wrestle you to the ground, put plasticuffs on your wrists and have you charged with air rage when you land.

    Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry Harry Hutton 2010

  • Searches uncovered four sets of false car registration plates, industrial gaffer tape, dust masks, a balaclava, plasticuffs, industrial ear protectors, and the van which officers believed would have been used in the plot.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • But if you point this out, they will wrestle you to the ground, put plasticuffs on your wrists, taser you and have you charged with air rage when you land.

    Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry 2010

  • And if you politely request that he stops interrupting and shuts his goddamned cake hole for five minutes, they wrestle you to the ground, put plasticuffs on your wrists and have you charged with air rage when you land.

    Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry Harry Hutton 2010

  • But if you point this out, they will wrestle you to the ground, put plasticuffs on your wrists, taser you and have you charged with air rage when you land.

    Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry Harry Hutton 2010

  • But if you point this out, they will wrestle you to the ground, put plasticuffs on your wrists, taser you and have you charged with air rage when you land.

    Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry Harry Hutton 2010

  • I have a fisherman's waistcoat with subdued TRF, some plasticuffs and a Grab Bag and believe I have sufficient points to be awarded Emeritus Fellow of your institute.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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