avocado hand
avocado hand noun: a hand injury sustained during the cutting of an avocado, typically an incisional or stab wound of the nondominant hand.
Noun
avocado hand (usually uncountable, plural avocado hands)
- A hand injury sustained during the cutting of an avocado, typically an incisional or stab wound of the nondominant hand.
- There has been an apparent increase in avocado related hand injuries. […] The mechanism of injury is usually a stabbing injury to the non-dominant hand as the knife slips past the stone, through the soft avocado fruit. Despite their apparent increased incidence, we could not find any cases in the...2017, G Rahmani, J Martin-Smith, P Sullivan, “The avocado hand”, in Irish Medical Journal, volume 110, number 10, →PMID, page 658
Forms of avocado hand
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Origin of avocado hand
From avocado + hand. Analogous to earlier-attested terms on the pattern of [role/activity/object] + [body part], such as tennis elbow, bed head, runner's knee, farmer's lung, miner's lung, and woolsorter's disease; newer examples include sex hair, Tetris brain, and avocado hand.
Questions about avocado hand
- What does avocado hand mean?
- Avocado hand means a hand injury sustained during the cutting of an avocado, typically an incisional or stab wound of the nondominant hand.
- What part of speech is avocado hand?
- Avocado hand is a noun.
- What is the plural of avocado hand?
- The plural of avocado hand is avocado hands.
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