How to pronounce “hands off”

Meaning

• [Interjection]
• (informal) Refrain from touching; refrain from initiating any physical contact.
• (nautical, historical) Cut off a hand: decreed by old admiralty law as punishment for pulling a knife during a fight with a shipmate.
• [Adjective]
• Tending not to interfere with the decisions and actions of other people (employees, subjects, etc.).
• [Verb]
• third-person singular simple present indicative of hand off

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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