The word "cuffs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to both the manacles used to secure one's wrists, as well as a type of clothing item. For example: "She looked fashionable in her white blouse, black pants, and coordinating cuffs."
In hospital he was "blindfolded the whole time and handcuffed to the bed with tight cuffs".
"Every time I would tell him I didn't know what he was talking about, he would tighten my cuffs up, real tight, against the wall," she said.
He was shackled to an eyebolt – a latch to secure prisoners' cuffs or chains, like those found in many police precinct houses, but lower to the ground – and left alone for hours with music blasting.
"Basically, they just tortured me, mentally, and somewhat physically, with the cuffs," Benita Johnson, an inmate serving a 60-year murder sentence, told the Guardian from prison of the interrogation that led to her conviction.
Details on hemlines and interesting cuffs are wasted on me, as they invariably end up on the tailor's floor.
Sean O'Faolain considered no one spared: "We see the prostitute, the beastly peasant, the timid bourgeois, the civil servant – his favourite subjects – in an unpitying light that exposes their wrinkled faces, their painted gums, their frayed cuffs, their shifty eyes, their hearts that have dried like peas".
Tiny model Spitfire fighters flashing at his shirt-cuffs, Mr Farage told the crowd what it wanted to hear.
Indeed, over the past year he has used the weariness in the Security Council, and the growing desire of Russia, France and China for an end to economic sanctions and a return to oil-business-as-usual, to wriggle slowly but surely out of the weapons hand-cuffs that Unscom's inspections had clamped on him.
And it was love and orderliness, rather than subservience, that made her lay out his clothes each morning with his pen, filled up, in one suit pocket and his cigarette lighter, filled up, in another, and the cufflinks in the shirt-cuffs, and the shoes shined.She applied the same sense of grace and neatness to America.
The 10 pages of notes contained a motivational pep talk to himself along with some of his off-the-cuff answers and put-downs.
another detective, Tony Villardita, said at trial that the eyebolt to which Griggs was cuffed was three or four feet above the ground.
