Fist

Fist may refer to:

  • A hand that has the fingers curled into the palm and the thumb retracted, displaying the knuckles
  • In falconry, the hand covered by a heavy glove as in boxing, on which the hawk perches
  • Fist bump a gesture similar in meaning to a handshake or high five.
  • The individual characteristics of a telegraph operator's style striking the telegraph key
  • Major League baseball player
  • Fist, a recurring character in the BBC Three Situation comedy series Ideal (TV series)
  • FIST (1996 video game), a 1996 video game
  • A raised fist, a salute used by political and social activists
  • Fist (UK band), a heavy metal band from the UK
  • In printing, another name for the symbol ☞, see index (typography)
  • Fist also refers to a band of men (manus), or a squad.

Read more about Fist:  Acronyms

Famous quotes containing the word fist:

    “I was afraid the waking arm would break
    From the loose earth and rub against his eyes
    A fist of trees, and the whole country tremble
    In the exultant labor of his rise;”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    “Her fist of a face died clenched on a round pain;
    And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.
    These cloud-sopped, marble hands, this monumental
    Argument of the hewn voice, gesture and psalm,
    Storm me forever over her grave”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)