Usually means: Hand closed tightly, fingers bent.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. fist: Merriam-Webster
  2. fist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fist, fist: Wordnik
  7. fist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FIST, fist: Wiktionary
  9. fist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fist: Dictionary.com
  13. fist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. F.I.S.T, FIST, Fist (UK band), Fist (band), Fist (disambiguation), Fist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fist: Rhymezone
  19. fist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fist: FreeDictionary.org
  22. fist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Fist: World Wide Words
  25. fist: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. fist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fist: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fist: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FIST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. fist: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fist: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Fist: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fist: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See fisted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
noun:  (printing) The pointing hand symbol ☞.
noun:  (amateur radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
noun:  (slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
noun:  A group of men.
noun:  The talons of a bird of prey.
noun:  (informal) An attempt at something.
verb:  To strike with the fist.
verb:  To close (the hand) into a fist.
verb:  To grip with a fist.
verb:  (slang) To fist-fuck.
verb:  (intransitive) To break wind.
noun:  The act of breaking wind; fise.
noun:  A puffball.
noun:  Acronym of Future Infantry Soldier Technology.

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