Usually means: Carrying or equipped with weapons.
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  1. under arms: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. under arms: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. under arms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. under arms: Wiktionary
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  8. Under arms: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. under arms: FreeDictionary.org
  11. under arms: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (under arms)

adjective:  (military) Equipped with weapons (of a country, army etc.); in a state of armed, military readiness.
adjective:  (chiefly Australia) Carrying a weapon (chiefly of a criminal); of a crime, committed using a weapon or weapons.

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