Usually means: Close combat without weapons involved.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word hand-to-hand:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. hand-to-hand: Merriam-Webster
  2. hand-to-hand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hand-to-hand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hand-to-hand, hand-to-hand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hand-to-hand: Vocabulary.com
  6. hand-to-hand: Wordnik
  7. hand-to-hand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hand-to-hand: Wiktionary
  9. hand-to-hand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hand-to-hand: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hand-to-hand: Dictionary.com
  12. Hand-to-hand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hand-to-hand: Rhymezone
  14. hand-to-hand: FreeDictionary.org
  15. hand-to-hand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. hand-to-hand: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hand-to-hand: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hand-to-hand: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Close together, within arm's reach.
▸ adjective:  Especially, describing fighting (armed or unarmed) done within reach rather than at range.

Similar:
close, mano-a-mano, closehanded, mano a mano, hand-in-glove, handed, face-to-face, nose-to-nose, near as a toucher, fullhanded, more...

Phrases:
hand-to-hand struggle, Hand-to-hand combat, more...

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Similar:
close, mano-a-mano, closehanded, mano a mano, hand-in-glove, handed, face-to-face, nose-to-nose, near as a toucher, fullhanded, more...

Phrases:
hand-to-hand struggle, Hand-to-hand combat, more...



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