OPINION: According to the 11th edition of the Chambers Dictionary (2008), akimbo means “with hand on hip and elbow out”. I have a citation of akimbo from 2001, where the author writes “we both sat with legs akimbo”. Supplied By the time Daniel Radcliffe made Guns Akimbo, in 2019, the usage of “akimbo” had clearly changed. Supplied Bob Dylan on the cover of Blonde on Blonde, from 1966. Words regularly acquire new meanings, but these are not particularly common words, and their meanings change apparently extremely rapidly.

Source: Stuff April 04, 2021 17:00 UTC