hand running
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]hand running (not comparable)
- (archaic) consecutively; in a row
- He won ten times hand running.
- 1923, Robert Ervin Howard, The Sheik:
- He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws. Then he had played tiddledywinks with the Sultan of Turkey and had beaten him forty-seven times, hand-running.