Fill One's Hand Meaning
(US, idiomatic) To draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.
Example: 1905, Alfred Henry Lewis, The Sunset Trail (2005 edition), ISBN 9781417908349, p. 377:
"Now everybody fill his hand!" shouted Mr. Hickok, pulling his 8-inch six-shooters.
1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, ISBN 9780802132956, p. 4:
"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."
1979 June 25, Richard Schickel, "Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime," Time:
"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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