fill one's hand | Idiomator

Meaning: (US,idiomatic)To draw one'shandgun, especially for anarmedconfrontation.1905,Alfred Henry Lewis,The Sunset Trail, published2005,→ISBN,page377:"Now everybodyfill his hand!" shouted Mr. Hickok, pulling his 8-inch six-shooters.1962[1959],William S. Burroughs,Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press,page 3:"He just looks at me and says: ‘Fill your handstranger’ and hauls out an old rusty six shooter and I take off across Lincoln Park, bullets cutting all around me."1979June 25,Richard Schickel, “Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime”, inTime:"Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch," the old lawman cries, clamping the reins of his horse between his teeth and filling his own hands with six-gun and repeater.

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