fill one's hand

Definitions

1. 1

   To draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.

   • "Now everybody fill his hand!" shouted Mr. Hickok, pulling his 8-inch six-shooters.
   • "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."
   • "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.

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