| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  f st |
| NOUN: | 1. The hand closed tightly with the fingers bent against the palm. 2. Informal A grasp; a clutch: had a fortune in their fists and let it go. 3. Printing See index (sense 3). | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: fist·ed, fist·ing, fists
1. To clench into a fist. 2. To grasp with the fist. 3. Vulgar To insert the fist into the rectum or vagina of (another) as a means of sexual stimulation. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old English f st. See penkwe in Appendix I.
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