zip-cuffhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zip-cuff_v%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezip cuff, v.
First published 2021

zip cuffverb

U.S.
  1. 1996–
    transitive. To put zip cuffs on (a person); to bind (a person's wrists or ankles) with zip cuffs (zip cuff n.).
    1. 1996
      He had been zipcuffed.
      P. F. Hamilton, Reality Dysfunction xix. 525
    2. 2006
      If I find her here next time I come through, I'll zip cuff you, take you back to our compound, and give you a long class on infectious diseases. Got it?
      P. Rieckhoff, Chasing Ghosts vi. 78
    3. 2015
      Yu tore free and bolted back toward his water-treatment plant, stumbling, hands still zip-cuffed behind his back.
      P. Bacigalupi, Water Knife i. 18

Originally published as part of the entry for zip cuff, n.

zip cuff, v. was first published in March 2021.

zip cuff, v. was last modified in July 2023.