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side-handed

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side-handed

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From side + handed.

adjective

  1. not comparable Sideways from the hand. Lightning drew in on his tail and I gave my lariat a side-handed pitch.
  2. not comparable Done with the side of the hand. Mallory tensed, and as the policeman passed the door, he stepped out, brought his hand over and down in a side-handed blow to the base of the neck that had every ounce of power in his shoulders behind it.
  3. not comparable Indirect; subtle. When she appeared again, she made some side-handed inquiries regarding Otto (with that gentle artifice oft employed by women); but he was gone.
  4. UK, not comparable, of a baton or nightstick Expanding. ... with side-handed or expanding batons, so as to provide police officers with better protection against assaults by criminals.

adverb

  1. not comparable, of an action executed with the hand Sideways. Wading upstream, it was obvious I would have to cast side-handed and under-handed, with an occasional bow-and-arrow "shot."
  2. not comparable Using the side of the hand. As the gunman spluttered, Towler continued the momentum of his hand to catch the man side-handed in the windpipe and, with his other hand, struck him hard in the crotch.

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of side-hand

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MLA

"side-handed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/side-handed. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

side-handed. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/side-handed

Chicago

"side-handed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/side-handed.

BibTeX
@misc{side_handed_2026,
  title = {side-handed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/side-handed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}