akimbo

• Robert at once placed his arms akimbo, and, looking his tutor sternly in the face, replied: "Sir, I came here to have something beat into my brains, not into my knuckles." —  Great Fortunes and How They Were Made
• But there I find two figures in calico wrappers, with bare red arms akimbo, a basket of wet clothes in front of each, and only one empty clothes-line between them. —  The Promised Land
• He was standing in profile, one arm akimbo, and the toes of his boots curled upwards, and he wore an emerald-studded dagger at his belt. —  Nine Princes In Amber
• Framing die door and all along the sleazy mock-pagoda facade were tall pink placards with crude line sketches of girls with legs akimbo, a motif animated in pink neon along die roof ledge and racks of raw-meat photographs. —  The Gates of Noon
• The word akimbo is at least 600 years old and one source points to a literal meaning of "a keen bow" meaning —  OUPblog

Used in the Same Context