avocado hand

noun

A hand injury sustained during the cutting of an avocado, typically an incisional or stab wound of the nondominant hand.

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Meanings

nounavocado hand (usually uncountable, plural avocado hands)

plural avocado hands

  1. uncountableusuallyA hand injury sustained during the cutting of an avocado, typically an incisional or stab wound of the nondominant hand.
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    There has been an apparent increase in avocado related hand injuries. […] The mechanism of injury is usually a stabbing injury to the non-dominant hand as the knife slips past the stone, through the soft avocado fruit. Despite their apparent increased incidence, we could not find any cases in the literature which describe the “avocado hand”. We present a case of a 32-year-old woman who sustained a significant hand injury while preparing an avocado.

    2017, G Rahmani, J Martin-Smith, P Sullivan, “The avocado hand”, in Irish Medical Journal, volume 110, number 10, →PMID, page 658

Origin

From avocado + hand. Analogous to earlier-attested terms on the pattern of [role/activity/object] + [body part], such as tennis elbow, bed head, runner's knee, farmer's lung, miner's lung, and woolsorter's disease; newer examples include sex hair, Tetris brain, and avocado hand.

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avocado hand. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocado%20hand

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“avocado hand.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocado%20hand. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “avocado hand,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocado%20hand.

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