lunch hook

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Noun

lunch hook (plural lunch hooks)

  1. (slang) A person's hand.
    • 1918, Herman Cyril McNeile, The Human Touch
      It was a question of move, and move damn quick. He'd got a flare pistol in his lunch hook when I fell on him, and your little crowd would have looked pretty if he'd let it off.
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