Definitions for fist

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fist fist

Spelling: [fist]

IPA: /fɪst/

Fist is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in fist (fist).

Definitions for fist

noun

1. the hand closed tightly, with the fingers doubled into the palm.
2. Informal. the hand.
3. Informal. a person's handwriting.
4. Printing. index (def 8).
5. feist.
6. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.

verb (used with object)

1. to make (one's hand) into a fist.
2. to grasp in the fist.

verb (used without object)

1. South Midland U.S. to prance or strut about:

Origin of fist

before 900; Middle English; Old English fȳst; cognate with German Faust fist; perhaps akin to five

Examples for fist

No stones or other missiles were used; the battle was fist to fist.

Had his fist in my face before I could get my finger on the trigger.

So, I haul off and belt him, two or three times, with my fist.

The policeman, now yelling and shaking his fist, started to exit his pillbox and walk toward me.

Last year he lunged at me with his fist and threatened to kill me again.

There was a thud as his fist hit the rickety, squeaking table in the center of the room.

Garson brought his fist down on the table with a force that made the glasses jingle.

He listened to her thoughtfully, his chin resting on his fist.

He felt his own fist tingle as he returned the effort with interest.

He grabbed a fist full of hair in one take, and we were pretty banged up by the end of it.