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hands off

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Interjection

  1. Refrain from touching; refrain from initiating any physical contact.
  2. Cut off a hand: decreed by old admiralty law as punishment for pulling a knife during a fight with a shipmate.

Adjective

  1. Tending not to interfere with the decisions and actions of other people (employees, subjects, etc.).
  2. Alternative spelling of hands off: not involving or requiring direct control or intervention.

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hand off

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