Two-hander
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:; A two-handed sword.
- 2 Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:; 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."
- 3 Two-handed backhand. informal
- 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"."
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"She was munching on a two-hander cheeseburger with one hand, clicking away on her laptop with the other."
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