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openhands

openhands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of openhand.

Meaning of openhand

Verb

openhand (third-person singular simple present openhands, present participle openhanding, simple past and past participle openhanded)

  1. (transitive) To hit with an open hand.
    • He then openhanded him again, and Stossel went down and was nearly crying for his mum.2002, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Robert Picarello, In The Pit With Piper, →ISBN, page 146
  2. (only in the form "openhand it") To be openhanded.
    • You are caring parents who love your family; and you alone can make the decision to tighten your purse strings or to go on openhanding it.1992, Shirley Cook, Grown-up Kids, →ISBN, page 71

Questions about openhands

What is openhands the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Openhands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of openhand.

Words near openhands in the dictionary

  1. openhand
  2. openhanded
  3. openhandedly
  4. openhandedness
  5. openhanding
  6. openhands
  7. openhearted
  8. openheartedly
  9. openheartedness
  10. opening
  11. opening a can of whoop ass

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Adapted from Wiktionary: openhands (page history and authors); openhand (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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