Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A left-handed person.
- noun An advocate or member of the political left.
- adverb With the left hand or in a left-handed manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; a left-handed person.
- noun a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US One who is
left-handed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand
- noun a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right
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Examples
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Playing a lefty is always dicey, but Nadal is 2-0 against Puerta and beat left-hander Ricardo Mello in Brazil in February.
USATODAY.com - French Open final gets left-handed complement 2005
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Jason Marquis, 31, who won 15 games for the Colorado Rockies last season, will join lefty John Lannan at the top of the rotation.
Nationals hope new faces lead way out of last place in NL East 2010
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All viable candidates are likely to be far to the left of the regional average in lefty-gerrymandered districts and far to the right in right-gerrymandered districts.
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Easy NC30/06, Montana offers their rifles in lefty models, short and long action, blue and stainless.
Rifles of Interest: Montana High Country Series Ridgeline 2009
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The point, lefty, is that Obama couldn't pull him across the finish line.
Voter Fraud Video Watch - NJ. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Byrdak said that the title of lefty specialist actually hurt him this winter as he tried to sign a new contract.
The Precarious Life of a Lefty Reliever Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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Easy NC30/06, Montana offers their rifles in lefty models, short and long action, blue and stainless.
Rifles of Interest: Montana High Country Series Ridgeline 2009
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You can tell that reality is slowly overtaking the initial narrative; it looks like certain lefty commenters no longer feel comfortable popping in to vent their spleens against Israel push back against DB.
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The importance of the stud starters gets magnified, and Boston has two thoroughbreds in lefty Jon Lester and Josh Beckett.
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Whether it's her love of conspiracy theories (but only those that involve the American Gov't perpetrating them), her Anti-American views, her hatred of America's military, or her love of anything that could possibly cause embarrassment to the US, the human roadblock they call Rosie is a big hit in lefty circles.
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