wrist

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It's not even a slap on the wrist, they don't notice!

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a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

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noun

a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wrist.

noun

a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

Example sentences

It's not even a slap on the wrist, they don't notice!

We arrest kids for things that they used to just get a slap on the wrist/call to mom & dad for.

The clever ones actually used that to tell them what day it was since they couldn't be bothered to invent the wrist watch.

I spent more than one night at my sink with a kitchen knife at my wrist wondering if I should go ahead and make the cut or not.

The cost to the state to imprison such barely harmful acts is definitely not worth it. All she deserves is a slap on the wrist, a small fine and some probation time.

If I want eye candy on my wrist, I'll dust off a mechanical instead of buying something that will be junk in a few years.

Sounds to me like they gave a slap on the wrist because he had done nothing illegal and therefore all they could do was try to scare him... and it worked.

I have seen the people with the serious wrist scars, the verticals-along-the-veins of the suicides who mean business.

Any and every action taken against these entities seems to either melt away entirely or result in a slap on the wrist.

The most basic mobile phone is in fact a communications devices that shames all of science fiction, all the wrist radios and handheld communicators.

I have talked with men so schizophrenic I almost cried to see a human mind so shattered before me. I have slept with a woman for no other purpose than to hear her rise "to go to the bathroom" so I could follow her and ensure she wasn't going to the kitchen to do the serious wrist thing.