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 or enthusiastic

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Examples

  • 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.

    Jason Schwartzman, 'Bored' And Loving It 2010

  • 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

  • It's two-fisted, pulp-adventure, science fiction. '

    July 2009 2009

  • 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.

    Male values don't include patience? 2009

  • Hawaiian history: a small, two-fisted Chinese-Hawaiian police detective who became one of the most celebrated police officers of his day.

    Alan Brennert discusses Honolulu 2010

  • 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

  • "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

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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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