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two-hander
noun 5
Collocations
3VERB + TWO-HANDER
munching, wind
TWO-HANDER + NOUN
angie, cheeseburger
PREP.
on, with
Definitions
noun
1
Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:
2
Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:
She was munching on a two-hander cheeseburger with one hand, clicking away on her laptop with the other.
The giant oozing pizza burger was a two-hander, Angie tried to balance it, but half the tomato sauce spilled onto the plate.
3
Two-handed backhand.
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".
With a screenplay by Carax and Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks (who also wrote the music and lyrics), the film is largely a two-hander about a famous couple and their talented daughter — the title character.
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 […]
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She was munching on a two-hander cheeseburger with one hand, clicking away on her laptop with the other.
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The giant oozing pizza burger was a two-hander, Angie tried to balance it, but half the tomato sauce spilled onto the plate.
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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 "hypnoti
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