hand-out

UK/ˈhændaʊt/US/ˈhændˌaʊt/

noun

A player to whom a ball is served.

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Meanings

nounhand-out (plural hand-outs)

plural hand-outs

  1. real tennisball gamesA player to whom a ball is served.
  2. alternativeAlternative form of handout.

    They dropped old Henry at Tarpin, where he soon drank up all his wages. When Rapp picked him up there, he was living on hand-outs.

    1925, Willa Cather, chapter III, in The Professor’s House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, book II (Tom Outland’s Story), page 196

Origin

Deverbal from hand out.

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APA

hand-out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hand-out

MLA

“hand-out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hand-out. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hand-out,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hand-out.

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