hand-to-hand
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5.4
- adjective
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cuerpo a cuerpo
- The soldiers trained rigorously in hand-to-hand combat to prepare for close encounters.
- hand-to-hand combat
- hand-to-hand fighting
- hand-to-hand fight
If they had had hand to hand training, no gun ever comes out.
- If they had had hand to hand training, no gun ever comes out.
Examples
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You can't beat him hand-to-hand.
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The Marines get ready for hand-to-hand combat practice.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yeah, I learned a few things about hand-to-hand combat.
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This way, we can spend an entire hour on weapons training and hand-to-hand combat.
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This morning the fighting was hand-to-hand.
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Such knives have to be extremely sharp and strong to survive hand-to-hand combat.
Blog text (31) -
I can see now that there are two men on top of the roof... ...and they're engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
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His skills at hand-to-hand combat, weapons, firearms, explosives is... it's unmatched.
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The young man needed no weapons to defend himself; like many Shou warriors, he possessed deadly hand-to-hand fighting skills.
Fiction book (1992) -
I need officers who'’ve been trained in advanced hand-to-hand combat.
Synonyms
10
7.0
To stand very close and fight or argue strongly
5
3.8
During very close fighting when people stand next to each other
Antonyms
How Close
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hand-to-hand comes from the simple image of two people's hands meeting, like passing something 'from one hand to another', so you can picture people very close together with their hands touching. That's why hand-to-hand means direct, close physical fighting or contact.