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darbies1
- pluralplural of darby
darbies2
- UKpluralplural onlyslanghandcuffs
Second watch: (Produces handcuffs) Here are the darbies.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC3 more examples
Who's afraid of him, except the old governor who daresn't catch him and put him in double-darbies, as he deserves, but lets him go about kidnapping people […]
1851, Herman Melville, chapter 73, in Moby DickAnd he says, 'I'll go along quiet, Bobby,' he says, 'without the darbies,' he says.
1885, Lewis Carroll, “A Tangled Tale”, in The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, New York: Vintage, published 1976, page 1058Sentry, are you there? / Just ease this darbies at the wrist, and roll me over fair, / I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 26, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
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