Two-hander

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:; A two-handed sword.
  2. 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. 3
    Two-handed backhand. informal
  4. 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. 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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