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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hand-to-handadverb

    being at close quarters

    "hand-to-hand fighting"

  2. hand to handadverb

    at close quarters

    "fought hand to hand"

Wiktionary

  1. hand-to-handadjective

    Close together, within arm's reach.

  2. hand-to-handadjective

    Especially, fighting done within reach rather than at range. May or may not indicate unarmed combat.

ChatGPT

  1. hand-to-hand

    Hand-to-hand generally refers to direct, close range, personal contact or combat. It often involves physical contact, especially in the context of fighting or combat where weapons are not used. The phrase can also refer to direct exchanges or transactions between people.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. hand-to-hand

    A close fight; the situation of two persons closely opposed to each other.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hand-to-hand in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hand-to-hand in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of hand-to-hand in a Sentence

  1. Bobby Tabron:

    He suffered from physical injuries, including a persistent tinnitus, as well as depression, the lawsuit said. The Metropolitan Police officers who brought the other suit -- Bobby Tabron and DeDivine K. Carter -- also say they suffer injuries from that day. Their lawsuit said that Tabron -- who broke Bobby Tabron wrist among other injuries -- suffers from insomnia, as well as slightly slurred speech and slower thinking from a concussion after rioters repeatedly hit Bobby Tabron head. Bobby Tabron was posted behind a set of bike racks near the Capitol, where Bobby Tabron was struck with flag poles and bats, according to the lawsuit. Bobby Tabron engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the rioters, who.

  2. Caroline Edwards:

    It was carnage. It was chaos, i am not combat trained, and on that day it was just hours of hand-to-hand combat.

  3. Houston Police Chief Troy Finner:

    Hand-to-hand in battle, when you're close in, sometimes you don't even have a chance to draw a weapon and you have to go hands-on.

  4. Andrew Schneider:

    Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

  5. Police officer:

    We fought hand to hand, inch by inch.


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