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:
“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)
“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 (1914–1953)
“Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)