- a variation of handheld.
hand-held
Britishadjective
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held in position by the hand
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(of a film camera) held rather than mounted, as in close-up action shots
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(of an electronic device) able to be held in the hand and not requiring connection to a fixed power source
noun
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The hand-held meals are meant to be convenient and tempting to those who pass on salads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Using a hand-held X-ray fluorescence scanner, Packard-Grams found that some of those documents contain ink with lead and/or copper.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Where rapper MGK, best known as Machine Gun Kelly, set off a hand-held metal detector with his chain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
You can do the exercises at home, with little to no equipment, and you can easily progress with hand-held weights, if desired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Soon the table is filled with his father’s hand-held vacuum, the rice cooker, the tape player, the television, the curtains still attached to their collapsible plastic rods.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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