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[edit]Adjective
[edit]two-fisted (not comparable)
- Using both fists (or, figuratively, hands).
- 2011 July 1, Mark Hodgkinson, “Wimbledon 2011: Andy Murray needs to have Rafael Nadal hitting two-fisted backhands on run, says Tim Henman: Andre Agassi once described Rafael Nadal's forehand as the nastiest shot in tennis, and few would take issue with the Las Vegan's analysis”, in The Daily Telegraph[1]:
- [Tim] Henman's view is that [Andy] Murray must aim to have [Rafael] Nadal hitting two-fisted backhands on the run.
- 2015 March 17, Shirley Leung, “Are Kane's doughnuts now the best in Boston?”, in The Boston Globe[2]:
- Soon, Travaglini was caught two-fisted, with a Kane's bacon-crumble in one hand and a maple-bacon doughnut from Union Square in the other.
- 2015 March 20, Jacky Runice, “Plan a spring getaway that's out of the ordinary”, in Daily Herald (Chicago)[3]:
- The Diner […] a locally owned, '50s-themed diner where you can get a hearty breakfast, country-fried steak and two-fisted sandwiches.
- (informal) Energetic, enthusiastic.
- 2011 August 25, Gordon Haber, “Neal Pollack's New Normal, a 'Two-Fisted' Noir Novel”, in The Jewish Daily Forward[4]:
- I didn't want to do an ethnography, I wanted a two-fisted, action-packed noir. Because that's the kind of book I like to read.
- 2011 November 18, Rachel Lee Harris, “Answers to 'Where on Earth to Eat?'”, in The Daily Telegraph[5]:
- Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. […] It's a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it's dirty and nasty and wonderful.
- 2015 February 24, Robert Horton, “A Fuller Life: The King of Two-Fisted Pulp Cinema Speaks! (Through Others)”, in Seattle Weekly[6], archived from the original on 17 March 2015:
- If you are already a fan of Samuel Fuller's uncompromising pulp cinema, you'll be delighted by this new documentary tour covering the life and career of the director, writer, and producer. If you've never encountered one of his two-fisted yarns, you'll almost certainly wonder how you got this far without stumbling across this flabbergasting character.
- Inclined to fight, belligerent
- 2015 March 20, Nick Harkaway, “Terry Pratchett: above all, he was funny: Not only did Sir Terry upend the fantasy genre and declare war on social injustice, he did so hilariously – and that is why he'll be remembered”, in The Guardian[7]:
- [Terry] Pratchett was pert with his detractors: "Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one." He might have said the same thing about a sense of humour, and that two-fisted partisanship, the willingness to hit back at an occasionally superior response to his work, made him kin to much of his audience, who had to defend their reading choices – especially in the 80s, before the 90s geek revolution made our obsessions cool – against charges of meaninglessness or childishness.