two-hander
noun› Something which requires two hands to…
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A two-handed sword.
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A food item requiring two hands to eat.
- She was munching on a two-hander cheeseburger with one hand, clicking away on her laptop with the other.2002, Amy L. Talford, Dying to Meet You, page 142:
- The giant oozing pizza burger was a two-hander, Angie tried to balance it, but half the tomato sauce spilled onto the plate.2007, Sheree Puccio, Meet Me at Crossbones, page 23:
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Broadcasting, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Media, Television, Theater 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".2013 October 8, Ronald Bergan, “Patrice Chéreau obituary”, in The Guardian:
- 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.2021, Jenelle Riley, Variety:
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- All the President's Men, the 1976 chronicle of the exposé of Watergate that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, is a consummate two-hander with Hoffman.2025 September 20, Nicolas Rapold, “Obituary: Robert Redford”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
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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 […]1905, John Jackson, Ambidexterity, or, Two-handedness and two-brainedness: