Usually means: Arms bent, hands on hips.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. akimbo: Merriam-Webster
  2. akimbo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. akimbo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. akimbo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. akimbo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Akimbo, akimbo: Wordnik
  7. akimbo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. akimbo: Wiktionary
  9. akimbo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. akimbo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. akimbo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Akimbo: Dictionary.com
  13. Akimbo (band), Akimbo (firearms), Akimbo (gaming), Akimbo (on-demand service), Akimbo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Akimbo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. akimbo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. akimbo: Rhymezone
  17. Akimbo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. akimbo: FreeDictionary.org
  19. akimbo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Akimbo: The Word Detective
  21. akimbo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. akimbo: Dictionary.com
  23. akimbo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  24. akimbo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. akimbo: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. akimbo: A Word A Day
  2. akimbo: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. akimbo, akimbo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. akimbo: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (akimbo)

adjective:  With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
adverb:  Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.
adverb:  Of weapons, especially firearms: one held in each hand.

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