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- s (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body
a tailor sitting with legs akimbo
stood with arms akimbo - r with hands on hips and elbows extending outward
she stood there akimbo
- The reporter's mother paced in front of the entrance impatiently, at times stopping to stand with her arms akimbo and dropping her head, at others squatting down to sob into a .
- As he sat down in the presidential box overlooking the speaker's rostrum, Lyndon was the absolute monarch of the place, and he looked ithands on his knees, elbows akimbo .
- Proper Buffalo wings should be snapped in half so that they resemble tiny drumsticks rather than their original, harder-to-eat akimbo shape.