hand out

present singular third person hands out · participle present handing out · participle past handed out · past handed out

1. transitiveTo distribute; to give out, either by hand or as if so (figuratively).First known use 17th c.

   Near-synonyms: give out, pass out, send out

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   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.

   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), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2012

   Synonyms: give out, pass out, send out

2. To help (someone) from a vehicle.

   He jumped onto the deck and handed her out of the gondola.

   2008, Deborah Weisgall, The World Before Her, page 107

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   ‘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.

   1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, ch. 10

3. slangTo try to impress (someone) with deceptions.

1. slangball gamesa player is out