hand-running

[ hand-ruhn-ing ]

adverb

1. in unbroken succession; consecutively.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hand-running¹

First recorded in 1820–30; extension of “in the run of a hand,” a reference to a card player receiving several good cards in a single deal, and implying quick succession

Example Sentences

Dangerfield was waiting, his hand running nervously over the shawl she had thrown over him.

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There, the very first week he was gone, she went out three nights hand-running with that feather man from St. Louis.

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They celebrate for two weeks, hand-running, just like the Jews of Barbary.

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And now what would you say it was that made Harve Allen run away from the man he'd already licked eight times hand running.

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I've done this every week-night for a month, hand running, with a few afternoon performances thrown in!

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