two-fisted

Adjective

two-fisted (not comparable)

1. Using both fists (or, figuratively, hands).
   • [Tim] Henman's view is that [Andy] Murray must aim to have [Rafael] Nadal hitting two-fisted backhands on the run.2011 July 1, Mark Hodgkinson, “Wimbledon 2011: Andy Murray needs to have Rafael Nadal hitting two-fisted backhands on run, says Tim Henman: Andre Agassi once described Rafael Nadal's forehand as the...
   • Soon, Travaglini was caught two-fisted, with a Kane's bacon-crumble in one hand and a maple-bacon doughnut from Union Square in the other.2015 March 17, Shirley Leung, “Are Kane's doughnuts now the best in Boston?”, in The Boston Globe
2. (informal) Energetic, enthusiastic.
   • I didn't want to do an ethnography, I wanted a two-fisted, action-packed noir. Because that's the kind of book I like to read.2011 August 25, Gordon Haber, “Neal Pollack's New Normal, a 'Two-Fisted' Noir Novel”, in The Jewish Daily Forward
   • Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. […] It's a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it's dirty and nasty and wonderful.2011 November 18, Rachel Lee Harris, “Answers to 'Where on Earth to Eat?'”, in The Daily Telegraph
3. Inclined to fight, belligerent
   • [Terry] Pratchett was pert with his detractors: "Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one." He might have said the same thing about a sense of humour, and that two-fisted partisanship, the willingness to hit back at an occasionally superior response to his work, made him kin to much...2015 March 20, Nick Harkaway, “Terry Pratchett: above all, he was funny: Not only did Sir Terry upend the fantasy genre and declare war on social injustice, he did so hilariously – and that is why...