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Hand Over Fist

Definition: Hand Over Fist

Hand Over Fist

Adverb

1. At a tremendous rate; "made money hand over fist".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Hand Over Fist

Specialty definitions using "hand over fist": SHAPER, BASEBALL GLOVE, steamer and shaper. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Hand Over Fist

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hand Over Fist

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hand over fist

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hand Over Fist

Language Translations for "hand over fist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

játszva (hand over hand, with ease). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andhay overay istfay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

hızlı ve başarı ile, tutuna tutuna, çabucak (apace, at no time, by leaps and bounds, double quick, fast, in a snap, in no time, in short order, lickety-split, nimbly, posthaste, quick, quickly, readily, slick, slippy, speedily, swiftly, with a rush). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hand Over Fist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-i-n-o-r-s-t-v"

-2 letters: driveshaft, threadfins.

-3 letters: antherids, deviators, donatives, fashioned, fashioner, favorites, firsthand, forehands, handovers, headfirst, ordinates, overhands, refashion, senhorita, tarnished, threadfin, varnished.

-4 letters: adhesion, aneroids, antherid, antihero, arointed, asteroid, astonied, aversion, avodires, avoiders, detrains, deviants, deviator, diatrons, disfavor, donative, enravish, fainters, farinose, favorite, forehand, foresaid, hairnets, handiest, handover, hardiest, hardnose, hedonist, hoariest, hordeins, horniest, indrafts, inearths, intrados, invaders, investor, notaries, ordinate, ornithes, overfast, overfish, overhand, overthin, randiest, rationed, ravished, redshift, seafront, sedation, senorita, softhead, strained, toadfish, tovarish, travoise, vanished, vanisher, viatores, votaries.

-5 letters: advents, adverts, adviser, advisor, airshed, airthed, aneroid, anestri, another, anthers, anthoid, antired, antsier, aridest, aroints, astride, atoners, atonies, avodire, avoider, dashier, datives, deafish, dearths, defiant, defrost, dehorns, dehorts, dervish, destain, detains, detrain, deviant, devisor, devoirs, diaster, diatron, dineros, disrate, dithers, diverts, donates, dronish, earshot, editors, erasion, ethions, evanish, evasion, fadeins, fainest, fainted, fainter, fairest, faithed, fantods, farside, fashion, fathers, favored, fedoras, finders, fishnet, foisted, fondest, forints, forties, friends, fronted, frontes, frosted, frothed, hadrons, hafters, hairdos, hairnet, handier, handset, hardens, hardest, hardies, hardset, harvest, hastier, hatreds, haviors, heriots, hernias, heroins, hinders, hinters, histone, hoarsen, hoidens, hoisted, hoister, hordein, hornets, hornist, indorse, indraft, inearth, infares, inroads, inshore, insofar, instead, invader, invades, inverts, iodates, naevoid, naivest, nastier, natives, nerdish, norites, oarfish, oestrin, ordains, ordines, orients, ovaries, overfat, oversad, randies, ratfish, ratines, rations, ravined, ravines, redfins, redfish, refinds, renvois, retains, retinas, retsina, roadies, roasted, rodents, rosined, sadiron, sainted, sandier, sardine, savored, senator, senhora, servant, shadier, shafted, sheitan, shifted, shifter, shorted, shorten, shortia, shortie, shrined, shrived, shriven, snifter, snorted, sordine, sortied, staider, stained, stainer, stander, starved, stearin, steroid, sthenia, stonier, storied, strafed, strived, striven, tardies, tarnish, taverns, thenars, theroid, thorias, thorned, thraves, threads, thrived, thriven, thrives, throned, thrones, tinders, tirades, toadies, toadish, torsade, trained, trashed, travois, treason, triodes, vahines, vainest, varnish, vastier, vendors, verdant, verdins, veritas, versant, version, viators, visored, vistaed, voiders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hand Over Fist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6E 64      4F 76 65 72      46 69 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000110 01101001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#79 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#70 &#105 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006E 0064      004F 0076 0065 0072      0046 0069 0073 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42678070249887184240758586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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