flex-cuff
noun
: a plastic strip that can be fastened as a restraint around a person's wrists or ankles
flex-cuff
transitive verb
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As a result, Dilone was restrained with flex-cuffs, the affidavit says.
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Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Later in the video, the sergeant’s team moves up a staircase crowded with cops from different teams, including an apparent arrest team in brown khaki pants equipped with plastic flex-cuffs waiting for orders.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
As a result, the flight attendant, who he’s accused of assaulting, secured his ankles and wrists in flex-cuffs, prosecutors said.
—Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
The arrests began around 8 P.M.; the protesters were flex-cuffed and loaded, with deliberate slowness, into double-length city buses.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
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Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Later in the video, the sergeant’s team moves up a staircase crowded with cops from different teams, including an apparent arrest team in brown khaki pants equipped with plastic flex-cuffs waiting for orders.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
As a result, the flight attendant, who he’s accused of assaulting, secured his ankles and wrists in flex-cuffs, prosecutors said.
—Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
The arrests began around 8 P.M.; the protesters were flex-cuffed and loaded, with deliberate slowness, into double-length city buses.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
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“Flex-cuff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flex-cuff. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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