Meaning of two-hander | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:
2. A two-handed sword.
3. A food item requiring two hands to eat.
4. Two-handed backhand.
   informal
5. A play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.
6. An ambidextrous person.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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 […]”

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