Two-hander
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Two-hander is a noun meaning Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:.
Meaning
Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:.
More Meanings
- (tennis, informal) Two-handed backhand.
- (theater, film) A play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.
- An ambidextrous person.
Example Sentences
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.
Ambidexterity is represented by such names as […] Sir Daniel Wilson […] whom, after nearly eighty years of Ambidextral experience as a highly developed two-hander […]
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.
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".
Word Forms
- two-handers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include double-handedness, both-handedness, many-handedness, manyhandedness, one-handedness, four-handedness.
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