hand signal

noun

: a movement of a person's hands that means something
They communicated with each other by using hand signals.

Examples of hand signal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Walz held up the hand signal, which consists of the index, middle and pinky fingers representing the mascot Sun Devil's pitchfork. Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024 Chord changes, song keys and tempos are often scrawled in the margins, necessary reminders for a catalog spanning six decades and for a band that might need that head nod or hand signal as a prompt during one of their massive stadium shows. Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024 Well, there was that Christie weird hand signal thing and, yeah. Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023 One day after a controversial challenge allowed the White Sox to score the go-ahead run, Jonah Heim celebrated a home run by mimicking the hand signal for a challenge. Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 22 June 2023 One man made a hand signal of excessive talking, WKBN said. CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023

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“Hand signal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hand%20signal. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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