fill one's hand

present singular third person fills one's hand · participle present filling one's hand · participle past filled one's hand · past filled one's hand

1. USidiomaticTo draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.

   "Now everybody fill his hand!" shouted Mr. Hickok, pulling his 8-inch six-shooters.

   1905, Alfred Henry Lewis, The Sunset Trail, published 2005, →ISBN, page 377

   2 more examples

   "He just looks at me and says: ‘Fill your hand stranger’ and hauls out an old rusty six shooter and I take off across Lincoln Park, bullets cutting all around me."

   1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 3

   "Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch," the old lawman cries, clamping the reins of his horse between his teeth and filling his own hands with six-gun and repeater.

   1979 June 25, Richard Schickel, “Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime”, in TIME, archived from the original on 13 May 2011

   Synonyms: slap leather