1. handcuff - Noun
2. handcuff - Verb
A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.
To apply handcuffs to; to manacle.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe best ethics course is to handcuff one of the bastards. George W. Bush
The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone. Regina Brett
America is a nation of experts without roots; we are always creating tacticians who are blind to strategy and strategists who cannot take a step, and when the culture has finished its work the institutions handcuff the infirmity. Norman Mailer
The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime Source: Internet
After some minor conversation, Edwards responded to Dahmer's request to turn his head and view his tropical fish, whereupon Dahmer placed a handcuff upon his wrist. Source: Internet
An alternate version has Bogart struck in the mouth by a handcuff loosened while freeing his charge, the other still around the prisoner's wrist. Source: Internet