two-handed backhand | a backhand shot made holding the racquet in both hands |
two-handed saw whipsaw two-man saw lumberman's saw | a saw with handles at both ends, intended for use by two people |
left-handed pitcher left-hander left hander lefthander lefty southpaw | a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand |
right-handed pitcher right-hander | (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand |
short-handed short-staffed undermanned understaffed | inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc., they're rather short-handed at the moment, overcrowded and understaffed hospitals |
bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands, a bumbling mechanic, a bungling performance, ham-handed governmental interference, could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse |
left-handed | ironically ambiguous, a left-handed compliment |
dextrorotary dextrorotatory right-handed | rotating to the right |
levorotary levorotatory left-handed | rotating to the left |
handed-down tralatitious | having been passed along from generation to generation, among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor |
light-handed | having a metaphorically delicate touch, the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive- New Yorker |
single-handed | without help from others, a single-handed accomplishment |
cavalier high-handed | given to haughty disregard of others |
heavy-handed roughshod | unjustly domineering, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies, a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition |
empty-handed | carrying nothing in the hands |
innocent guiltless clean-handed | free from evil or guilt, an innocent child, the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty |
red-handed | in the act of committing a crime or other reprehensible act, caught red-handed |
morganatic left-handed | (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank, valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior |
left-handed | (of marriages) illicit or informal, in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent |
handed | having or involving the use of hands, a handed, tree-living animal, a four-handed card game |
one-handed | having or using a single hand, one-handed golfers, a one-handed backetball shot |
two-handed bimanual | requiring two hands or designed for two people, a two-handed sledgehammer, a two-handed crosscut saw, a machine designed for bimanual operation |
right-handed | using or intended for the right hand, a right-handed batter, right-handed scissors |
left-handed | using or intended for the left hand, left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs, left-handed scissors |
ambidextrous two-handed | equally skillful with each hand, an ambidextrous surgeon |
sure-handed | proficient and confident in performance, promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts |
empty-handed unrewarded | having acquired or gained nothing, the returned from the negotiations empty-handed |
single-handed unassisted unbacked | unsupported by other people |
red-handed | doing something reprehensible or showing clear evidence of having done something reprehensible, he was caught red-handed |
single-handed single-handedly | without assistance, I built this house single-handedly |