two-hander

Noun

two-hander (plural two-handers)

1. A two-handed sword.
2. A food item requiring two hands to eat.
   • She was munching on a two-hander cheeseburger with one hand, clicking away on her laptop with the other.2002, Amy L. Talford, Dying to Meet You, page 142
   • The giant oozing pizza burger was a two-hander, Angie tried to balance it, but half the tomato sauce spilled onto the plate.2007, Sheree Puccio, Meet Me at Crossbones, page 23
3. (informal) Two-handed backhand.
4. A play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.
   • In May 2011, Chéreau came to the Young Vic theatre in London to direct I Am the Wind, a 70-minute two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse, which Michael Billington in the Guardian found "hypnotic", admiring the production's "visual bravura".2013 October 8, Ronald Bergan, “Patrice Chéreau obituary”, in The Guardian
   • With a screenplay by Carax and Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks (who also wrote the music and lyrics), the film is largely a two-hander about a famous couple and their talented daughter — the title character.2021, Jenelle Riley, Variety
5. An ambidextrous person.
   • Ambidexterity is represented by such names as […] Sir Daniel Wilson […] whom, after nearly eighty years of Ambidextral experience as a highly developed two-hander […]1905, John Jackson, Ambidexterity, or, Two-handedness and two-brainedness