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hand-to-hand
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Princeton's WordNet
hand-to-handadverb
being at close quarters
"hand-to-hand fighting"
hand to handadverb
at close quarters
"fought hand to hand"
Wiktionary
hand-to-handadjective
Close together, within arm's reach.
hand-to-handadjective
Especially, fighting done within reach rather than at range. May or may not indicate unarmed combat.
ChatGPT
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
hand-to-hand
A close fight; the situation of two persons closely opposed to each other.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hand-to-hand in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hand-to-hand in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of hand-to-hand in a Sentence
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
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.
We fought hand to hand, inch by inch.
It was carnage. It was chaos, i am not combat trained, and on that day it was just hours of hand-to-hand combat.
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.
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