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Crossword-Solution: AKIMBO 6 letters, 62 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Akimbo a. With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow
turned outward.

We have 62 clues for the answer “AKIMBO”

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Out-elbowed? 1 answer
In a bent position 1 answer
In a power pose, maybe 1 answer
In a power pose, perhaps 1 answer
Kind of stance. 1 answer
Like Superman's arms, often 1 answer
Like an indignant person's arms, maybe 1 answer
Like arms signaling a neutral zone infraction 1 answer
Like many a superhero's arms 1 answer
Like many scolders' arms 1 answer
Like some Arms Commando 1 answer
Like some arms 1 answer
Like some limbs of the impatient 1 answer
Like the arms in exercise class, at times 1 answer
One way for arms to be presented 1 answer
In a power pose 1 answer
Scold's elbow position 1 answer
Set in a bent position 1 answer
Way to bear arms 1 answer
With elbow turned outward. 1 answer
With elbows bent 1 answer
With elbows outward. 1 answer
With hand on hip 1 answer
With hand on hip, elbow outward. 1 answer
With hands on hips 1 answer
With hands on hips and elbows bent outward 1 answer
With hands on hips and elbows out 1 answer
With limbs like < > 1 answer
Word from Old Norse for "bent into a crook" 1 answer
With hands on hips, elbows bent outward 1 answer
Hands on hips, elbows bent out 1 answer
Adjective from the Icelandic for "bent bow" 1 answer
Arm position 1 answer
Arms position 1 answer
Bent outward 1 answer
Bent outward, as arms 1 answer
Classic Superman pose 1 answer
Crossed, as arms 1 answer
Defiant position 1 answer
Describing a hand-on-hip stance. 1 answer
Hand on hip 1 answer
Hand-on-hip position 1 answer
Adjective almost always used to modify "arms" 1 answer
Hands-on-hips 1 answer
Hands-on-hips position 1 answer
Hands-on-hips posture 1 answer
Hands-on-hips stance. 1 answer
Holding arms à la Puck 1 answer
How Superman often poses 1 answer
How Superman often stands 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AKIMBO (5)

Opposite her stood a brutal, heavy-faced, red-moustached young man, his gaitered legs parted wide, one arm akimbo, the other waving a riding crop, his whole attitude suggestive of triumphant bravado.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Not till La Ricaneuse stands before her with bare, black arms akimbo, uttering a volley of vile abuse and of brazen impudence.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
Opposite her stood a brutal, heavy-faced, red-moustached young man, his gaitered legs parted wide, one arm akimbo, the other waving a riding-crop, his whole attitude suggestive of triumphant bravado.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
Presently he looked up and saw Borghild standing before him; she held her arms akimbo, her eyes shone with a strange light, and her features wore an air of recklessness mingled with pity.
Tales From Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen 1995
Pyrrha was leaning against a barn, one foot crossed over the other, her arms akimbo, a string of her bonnet in her mouth, and her blue eyes laughing from under long lashes.
Frivolous Cupid Anthony Hope 1996

Quotes with AKIMBO (3)

Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on a plane. When we hit 35,000 feet we’ll have reached the tropopause, the great belt of calm air, as close as I’ll ever get to the ozone. I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth, and that was frightening. But I saw something that only I could …
Tony Kushner Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon. But what do they do then? and there came to my mind’s eye one of those long streets somewhere south of the river whose infinite rows are innumerably populated. With the eye of the imagination I saw a very ancient lady crossing the street on the arm of a middle-aged woman, her daughter, perhaps, both so respectably booted and fu…
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 120 times in crossword archives (1945–2024).