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ad. In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward: children standing akimbo by the fence.

adj. Placed in such a way as to have the hands on the hips and the elbows bowed outward: children standing with arms akimbo.

adj. Being in a bent, bowed, or arched position: "There he remained, dead to the world, limbs akimbo, until we left” ( Alex Shoumatoff).

adj. With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

ad. Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.

adj. With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

Literally, in a sharp bend; at an acute angle; adjectively, bent; crooked: said of the arms when the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bent outward at an acute angle.

ad. with hands on hips and elbows extending outward

adj. (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body

"It was in one of these that our word akimbo unexpectedly appeared more than 200 years earlier than the next citation in the 1600s."

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