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prehand

prehand adverb: beforehand; at an earlier time.

Adverb

prehand (comparative more prehand, superlative most prehand)

  1. (nonstandard) Beforehand; at an earlier time.
    • I seen golf ball warmers before. They are not approved by the USGA, so I'm told. But getting back to heating up the golf ball. Heating them prehand would do you no good. You would have to heat them up prior to teeing up.1997 February 19, getsum, “warm balls”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet)
    • I apologise prehand to all those non-Scots out there, but BRAVEHEART......................MEDIOCRE!!!!!1998 November 4, Adam Gill, “Mediocre films”, in aus.films (Usenet)

Examples of prehand in a sentence

  • i called my credit card company prehand to advise them that Im going to be spending a large amount2000 October 13, Scott Keenan, “Is This Safe?”, in alt.marketing.online.ebay (Usenet):
  • Like all taxes proposed by pandering chickenshit avererage IQ cowardly office-seeking assholes, it's rigged prehand to fuck the middle and upper middle class and let the rich and poor off scot free.2008 January 15, Wankatoa, “Austin Fry's ad available online??”, in austin.general (Usenet):
  • A project may contain sub-projects or mere libraries were sources contained in those libraries cannot be determined prehand and it rendered the whole process ineffective.2014 September 12, Pritpal Bedi, “Announcement: HbIDE Implements Harbour/xHarbour Debugger”, in comp.lang.xharbour (Usenet):

Forms of prehand

comparativemore prehand
superlativemost prehand

Origin of prehand

From pre- + hand.

Questions about prehand

What does prehand mean?
Prehand means beforehand; at an earlier time.
How do you use prehand in a sentence?
i called my credit card company prehand to advise them that Im going to be spending a large amount
What part of speech is prehand?
Prehand is an adverb.

Words near prehand in the dictionary

  1. prehadronic
  2. prehadrons
  3. prehallical
  4. prehallux
  5. prehalluxes
  6. prehand
  7. prehandicap
  8. prehaps
  9. prehard
  10. preharden
  11. prehardened

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