hand running

adverb

Consecutively; in a row.

“He won ten times hand running.”

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Meanings

adverbhand running (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableConsecutively; in a row.

    He won ten times hand running.

    2 more examples

    He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws. Then he had played tiddledywinks with the Sultan of Turkey and had beaten him forty-seven times, hand-running.

    1923, Robert Ervin Howard, The Sheik

    Well, Schultz is around after me again that night to take me to the house in the grove, and in fact every night for a month hand-running I play the captain and it is not long before I am beating him like breaking sticks.

    1944, Damon Runyon, The Lacework Kid
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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