devil sign

noun

A hand gesture formed by closing the middle two fingers and the thumb and extending the index finger and little finger so as to indicate devil horns.

Meanings

noundevil sign (plural devil signs)

plural devil signs

  1. A hand gesture formed by closing the middle two fingers and the thumb and extending the index finger and little finger so as to indicate devil horns.

    Anyway, their 1980 effort at the Capitol was totally fucked. It was so bloody loud you could not hear yourself think and all that little satin ponce Dio could do was run around the stage in his platform shoes making fucked devil signs with his fingers.

    1981 April 12, Tharunka, Kensington, page 30
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