handcuffing
Shackling a suspect
Handcuffing is restraining someone with handcuffs—metal rings that lock around the wrists.
Police handcuff suspects during arrests: The officer was handcuffing the man when his partner arrived.
Figuratively, handcuffing means severely restricting someone's ability to act: Budget cuts are handcuffing the department's efforts.
Control over impulses
- detentionTemporary official holding
- custodyProtective care or control
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- suspectBelieve to be likely
police · officer · Miranda · booking · perp walk · takedown · wrists · behind the back
Control over impulses
- BDSMErotic power dynamics
- kinkTight twisted spot
- fetishIrrational devotion to something
- roleplayAdopt another's perspective
submission · dominance · bedroom · consent · play · leather · metal · blindfold
Placing restrictions upon
- restrictingPlacing limits upon
- hinderingCreating obstacles to progress
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- red tapeBureaucratic obstacles to action
regulation · stifling · hamstringing · binding · impeding · obstructing · frustrating · controlling
Moving things between places
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- detaineePerson held in custody
- escortOne who accompanies another
- courthouseLegal proceedings venue
inmate · chain · guard · correctional · transfer · lockup · holding · fugitive
Famous escape artist
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- lockpickingOpening locks without keys
- escape artistPerformer who defeats restraints
contortion · key · sleight · trick · performance · straitjacket · challenge · stunt
restraint
Control over impulses
- detentionTemporary official holding
- custodyProtective care or control
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
suspect · police · officer · Miranda · booking · perp walk · takedown · wrists · behind the back · patrol
restraint
Control over impulses
roleplay · submission · dominance · bedroom · consent · play · leather · metal · blindfold · ties
limiting
Placing restrictions upon
- restrictingPlacing limits upon
- hinderingCreating obstacles to progress
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
red tape · regulation · stifling · hamstringing · binding · impeding · obstructing · frustrating · controlling · micromanaging
transport
Moving things between places
courthouse · inmate · chain · guard · correctional · transfer · lockup · holding · fugitive · extradition
Houdini
Famous escape artist
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- lockpickingOpening locks without keys
escape artist · contortion · key · sleight · trick · performance · straitjacket · challenge · stunt · showmanship
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- arrestarrest, Miranda warning, booking, custody, detained
- Police Trainingpolice academy, academy, cadets, recruits, trainees
- restraintschains, ropes, fetters, leg irons, irons
- Police Forcedeadly force, excessive force, lethal force, reasonable force, less lethal
- containingcontaining, enclosing, encasing, wrapping, enveloping
handcuffingreleasing
Allowing to escape
freeing · uncuffing · unbinding · unshackling · untying
handcuffingliberating
Setting free from constraint
freeing · emancipating · releasing · setting free · empowering
hand, cuff, cuffs, handcuffs, handcuff, shackles, handcuffed, manacles, cuffed