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The 53-year-old threw her hands up in the air and rolled her eyes at Griffin, 35, during a tense back-and-forth at the Hot Topics table that stemmed from a discussion about President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan and ongoing ICE raids across the country.
—EW.com, 27 Jan. 2025
The principal then puts a hand up and on Parker, who then immediately appears to hit the educator in the head.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Somebody else will stick their hand up and help solve it.
—Ayesha Javed, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
Kounde deserves credit for also not hiding and holding his hands up also to DAZN.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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First Known Use
1970, in the meaning defined above
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“Hand up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hand%20up. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
Legal Definition
hand up
transitive verb
: to deliver (an indictment) to a judge or higher judicial authority
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