flexicuffs

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noun

disposable plastic handcuffs similar in appearance to cable ties

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Meanings

nounflexicuffs pl (plural only)

alternative flex cuffs · alternative flex-cuffs · alternative flexi cuffs

  1. pluralplural onlydisposable plastic handcuffs similar in appearance to cable ties

    The inquiry’s chair, Alex Gallacher, later looked up flexicuffs on an electronic device, and described them as “basically cable ties”, noting it would be very easy for Nichols to mistake them as such.

    2015 August 20, Helen Davidson, “Former Nauru guard says he did not see waterboarding of asylum seekers”, in The Guardian

Origin

From flexible cuffs.

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APA

flexicuffs. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flexicuffs

MLA

“flexicuffs.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flexicuffs. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flexicuffs,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flexicuffs.

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