adjective

definition

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

adverb

definition

Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.

example

The man was standing akimbo.

Examples of akimbo in a Sentence

The yard porter, his arms akimbo, stood smiling with satisfaction before the large mirror.

Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his large and handsome eyes.

Natasha threw off the shawl from her shoulders, ran forward to face "Uncle," and setting her arms akimbo also made a motion with her shoulders and struck an attitude.

The handsome young soldier who had brought the wood, setting his arms akimbo, began stamping his cold feet rapidly and deftly on the spot where he stood.

Some capital snatches of verse are scattered throughout his novels, the best being "Poll put her arms akimbo" in Snarleyyow, and the "Hunter and the Maid" in Poor Jack.

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