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two-handers

two-handers is the plural of two-hander.

Meaning of 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
  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
  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

Questions about two-handers

What is two-handers the plural of?
Two-handers is the plural of two-hander.

Words near two-handers in the dictionary

  1. two-handed game
  2. two-handed games
  3. two-handedly
  4. two-handedness
  5. two-hander
  6. two-handers
  7. two-headed
  8. two-heart
  9. two-hit wonder
  10. two-hit wonders
  11. two-hole punch

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