Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Using or held by both hands.
- adjective Informal Characterized by vigor, roughness, or aggression.
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- adjective using both fists (or figuratively, hands)
- adjective informal
energetic orenthusiastic
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Examples
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And you want your private detective to be trying hard, but he's still often inept, and he's certainly not two-fisted and not hard-boiled and not very good at handling pain.
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Thirteen months ago, I wrote about Ultra-Man as one superhero of the early 1940s who appeared to promote two-fisted isolationism rather than early defense against the Nazis and imperial Japan.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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It's two-fisted, pulp-adventure, science fiction. '
July 2009 2009
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The idea that men are and ought to be unreflective, grunting, two-fisted louts good with their hands but not so much with their hearts and their heads is a class thing not a gender thing and it is imposed upon working class men by a system that needs them to be beasts of burden.
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Hawaiian history: a small, two-fisted Chinese-Hawaiian police detective who became one of the most celebrated police officers of his day.
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In the face of this two-fisted gloom, the safe-haven Swiss franc rose to fresh all-time highs against the dollar and the euro.
Euro Stays Under Pressure Andrew J. Johnson 2011
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"No To Ambulance Fees" signs are stacked near oxygen tanks and scuffed fire helmets, and a scrolling message board out front crystallizes their two-fisted appeal for autonomy and tradition: "Keep our service free."
Fight over Montgomery County ambulance fee continues Michael Laris 2010
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"No To Ambulance Fees" signs are stacked near oxygen tanks and scuffed fire helmets, and a scrolling message board out front crystallizes their two-fisted appeal for autonomy and tradition: "Keep our service free."
Fight over Montgomery County ambulance fee continues Michael Laris 2010
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I hammer two-fisted block chords emphatically, keeping time with the bold and innovative rhythms by swinging my head and shoulders, experiencing intense levels of emotion, bordering on a delicious madness.
Mercury Unbound - 6 J. Mykell Collinz 2011
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The idea that men are and ought to be unreflective, grunting, two-fisted louts good with their hands but not so much with their hearts and their heads is a class thing not a gender thing and it is imposed upon working class men by a system that needs them to be beasts of burden.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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