akimbo.

With hands on the hips and elbows turned outward, or in a similarly splayed arrangement.

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• arms akimbo

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She stood with arms akimbo.

He planted his hands on his hips, elbows akimbo.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Invariable adverb; use more or most only where natural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.