Fist may refer to:
- A hand that has the fingers curled into the palm and the thumb retracted, displaying the knuckles
- In falconry, the hand covered by a heavy glove as in boxing, on which the hawk perches
- Fist bump a gesture similar in meaning to a handshake or high five.
- The individual characteristics of a telegraph operator's style striking the telegraph key
- Major League baseball player
- Fist, a recurring character in the BBC Three Situation comedy series Ideal (TV series)
- FIST (1996 video game), a 1996 video game
- A raised fist, a salute used by political and social activists
- Fist (UK band), a heavy metal band from the UK
- In printing, another name for the symbol ☞, see index (typography)
- Fist also refers to a band of men (manus), or a squad.
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Famous quotes containing the word fist:
“Her fist of a face died clenched on a round pain;
And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.
These cloud-sopped, marble hands, this monumental
Argument of the hewn voice, gesture and psalm,
Storm me forever over her grave”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“I was afraid the waking arm would break
From the loose earth and rub against his eyes
A fist of trees, and the whole country tremble
In the exultant labor of his rise;”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Leadership in todays world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (19111978)