Akimbo
English Meaning
With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
- In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward: children standing akimbo by the fence.
- Placed in such a way as to have the hands on the hips and the elbows bowed outward: children standing with arms akimbo.
- Being in a bent, bowed, or arched position: "There he remained, dead to the world, limbs akimbo, until we left” ( Alex Shoumatoff).