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fill one's hand en · VERB
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(US, idiomatic) To draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.
"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:"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:
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slap leather