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hand-to-hand

hand-to-hand adjective: close together, within arm's reach.

Adjective

hand-to-hand (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Close together, within arm's reach.
  2. Especially, describing fighting (armed or unarmed) done within reach rather than at range.
    • soldiers trained in hand-to-hand combat
    • Hemingway's subject for the epilogue was the mano a mano (or hand-to-hand, a duel) between Spain's two leading matadors, Luis Miguel Dominguin and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordonez.1985 June 9, William Kennedy, “The Last Ole”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2020

hand-to-hand meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

hand-to-hand in Tamil

மிக நெருங்கிய, மிக நெருங்கிய நிலையில்

hand-to-hand in Tagalog

fighting done within reach rather than at range
mano-mano

Questions about hand-to-hand

What does hand-to-hand mean?
Hand-to-hand means close together, within arm's reach.
What is hand-to-hand in Tamil?
Hand-to-hand in Tamil is மிக நெருங்கிய, மிக நெருங்கிய நிலையில். See Hand-to-hand meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hand-to-hand?
Hand-to-hand is an adjective.

Words near hand-to-hand in the dictionary

  1. hand-tame
  2. hand-tameness
  3. hand-tied
  4. hand-tieds
  5. hand-tight
  6. hand-to-hand
  7. hand-to-mouth
  8. hand-wash
  9. hand-washable
  10. hand-washed
  11. hand-washes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hand-to-hand (page history and authors); hand-to-hand (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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