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Fist is defined as your hand when you bunch up your fingers so they touch your palm.
(noun)When you have balled up your fingers as you are about to punch someone, this is an example of a fist.
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See fist in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a hand with the fingers closed tightly into the palm, as for hitting; clenched hand
- Informal
- a hand
- the grasp
- Printing a sign () used to direct special attention to something
Origin: ME < OE fyst, akin to Ger faust (OHG fūst), prob. < IE *pṇksti < ? base *penkwe, five, in sense “clenched five (fingers)”
transitive verb
- to hit with the fist
- to grasp or handle
See fist in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The hand closed tightly with the fingers bent against the palm.
- Informal A grasp; a clutch: had a fortune in their fists and let it go.
- Printing See index.
- To clench into a fist.
- To grasp with the fist.
- Vulgar To insert the fist into the rectum or vagina of (another) as a means of sexual stimulation.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old English fȳst; see penkwe in Indo-European roots
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