mano
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- noun
- /ˈmɑːnoʊ/
- Informal
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mano
- And then what takes the coffee and then mano, mano is mano is the hand of the person that makes the coffee, right?
And then what takes the coffee and then mano, mano is mano is the hand of the person that makes the coffee, right?
- And then what takes the coffee and then mano, mano is mano is the hand of the person that makes the coffee, right?
- I think if, if you go up against someone mano a mano, can, you know, pick up the same weight, if you pick up that weight more than me, you're stronger than me.
Examples
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But he says, la mano non MI survey, My hand no longer serves me.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has made a career of going mano a mano with the dead white males of the eastern Establishment, he wrote this book in large part to understand why the Middle East of my childhood seems stuck in endless conflict.
Academic text (2010) -
After a long day of work, I raised my mano to ask for help carrying the heavy boxes.
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In Spanish, the word mano means hand, which can refer to any person's hand.
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When he waved his mano in the air, everyone turned to look at him.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mano is the Spanish word mano ('hand'), related to the Latin manus ('hand'). So when English speakers borrow mano they simply mean a 'hand' or the act of raising a 'hand'.