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two-hander en · NOUN

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1. Something which requires two hands to handle, such as: ▸ A two-handed sword.
2. Something which requires two hands to handle, such as: ▸ 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:
3. (informal) 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". 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:
   • 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:
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 […] 1905, John Jackson, Ambidexterity, or, Two-handedness and two-brainedness:

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