handler

[ hand-ler ]

/ ˈhænd lər /

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noun

a person or thing that handles.

Boxing. a person who assists in the training of a fighter or is the fighter's second during a fight.

a person who exhibits a dog in a bench show or field trial.

Nearby words

handle with gloves, handlebar, handlebar moustache, handlebars, handled, handler, handless, handley page, handling, handload, handloom

Origin of handler

1350–1400; Middle English. See handle, -er¹

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Examples from the Web for handler

Too silly and too scripted, those segments paled in comparison to the ones that Handler helmed solo.
Chelsea Handler Ends 'Chelsea Lately' With One Last Middle Finger|Kevin Fallon|August 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Handler, you see, might have been the first late-night host who got it.
Chelsea Handler Ends 'Chelsea Lately' With One Last Middle Finger|Kevin Fallon|August 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is to say that Handler is, at the very least, a polarizing personality.
Chelsea Handler Ends 'Chelsea Lately' With One Last Middle Finger|Kevin Fallon|August 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Does anyone really hate Seth Meyers, the way so many do Handler?
Chelsea Handler Ends 'Chelsea Lately' With One Last Middle Finger|Kevin Fallon|August 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“It crossed my mind, when I bring someone to a meeting I destroy his life,” his handler, Ben Yitzhak, says bluntly in the film.
When the Son of Hamas Spied for Israel|Nina Strochlic|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nor shall such owner or handler move more than three feet from the post until his dog shall have completed the trial.
Lad: A Dog|Albert Payson Terhune
He was evidently not in the least afraid to meet the handler, though as evidently without much confidence in his own skill.
The Riverman|Stewart Edward White
He was already beginning to show his natural fitness as a handler of weapons.
The Story of the Outlaw|Emerson Hough
The 'Disclosure' Act was an old ruling that any transmission must not be used for the benefit of any handler.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith
The Judges have power to order any handler to set his dog to retrieve game not shot by him personally.
Sporting Dogs|Frank Townend Barton

British Dictionary definitions for handler (1 of 2)

handler

/ (ˈhændlə) /

noun

a person, esp a police officer, in charge of a specially trained dog

a person who handles some specified thinga baggage handler

a person who holds or incites a dog, gamecock, etc, esp in a race or contest

the trainer or second of a boxer

British Dictionary definitions for handler (2 of 2)

Handler

/ (ˈhændlə) /

noun

Daniel . born 1970, US writer for older children, best known for the macabre humour of his A Series of Unfortunate Events, a sequence of books written in the persona of Lemony Snicket

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