hand out
English
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Verb
[edit]hand out (third-person singular simple present hands out, present participle handing out, simple past and past participle handed out)
- (transitive) To distribute; to give out, either by hand or as if so (figuratively). [from 17th c.]
- 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.
- To help (someone) from a vehicle.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, ch. 10:
- ‘Lydgate has a lot of ideas […] ,’ resumed Mr Brooke, after he had handed out Lady Chettam, and had returned to be civil to a group of Middlemarchers.
- 2008, Deborah Weisgall, The World Before Her, page 107:
- He jumped onto the deck and handed her out of the gondola.
- (slang) To try to impress (someone) with deceptions.
Derived terms
[edit]- hand it out
- handout (noun)
- hand-out (noun)
Translations
[edit]to distribute
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