English
Pronunciation
Interjection
hands off!
- (informal) Refrain from touching; refrain from initiating any physical contact.
- (nautical, historical) Cut off a hand: decreed by old admiralty law as punishment for pulling a knife during a fight with a shipmate.
Translations
don't touch!
- Albanian: mos prek!, shporru!
- Arabic: اِرْفَعْ يَدَكَ m (irfaʕ yadaka), اِرْفَعي يَدَكِ f
- Moroccan Arabic: قلع يدك (glaʕ yeddak)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 勿動手！ / 勿动手！ (wù dòngshǒu!), 不許碰！ / 不许碰！ (bù xǔpèng!)
- Czech: ruce pryč!, nesahat!
- Dutch: afblijven! (nl), niet aanraken!
- Estonian: käed eemale!
- Finnish: irti! (fi), näpit irti!
- French: pas touche ! (fr), bas les pattes ! (fr)
- German: Finger weg!, Hände weg!
- Greek: κάτω τα χέρια! (káto ta chéria!)
- Hungarian: el a kezekkel!, ne nyúlj hozzá!
- Italian: giù le mani!, giù le zampe!
- Japanese: 触るな！ (さわるな！, sawaru na!)
- Malayalam: തൊടരുത്! (toṭarutŭ!)
- Portuguese: tira as mãos!, tira a mão!
- Russian: ру́ки прочь! (rúki pročʹ!)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: да̏ље руке!, не ди́рати!
- Roman: dȁlje ruke!, ne dírati!
- Spanish: ¡saca las manos!
- Swedish: inte röra!, bort med händerna!, bort med tassarna!
- Tamil: தொடாதே! (toṭātē!)
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Adjective
hands off (comparative more hands off, superlative most hands off)
- Tending not to interfere with the decisions and actions of other people (employees, subjects, etc.).
- Antonym: hands-on
a hands-off policy
Translations
not interfering with others' decisions and actions
See also
Verb
hands off
- third-person singular simple present indicative of hand off
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