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Backhand   /bˈækhˌænd/   Listen
Backhand

adjective
1.
(of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke.  Synonym: backhanded.  Antonym: forehand.
2.
(of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward.  Synonym: left-slanting.
noun
1.
A return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke.  Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke.
verb
1.
Hit a tennis ball backhand.



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backhand drive
backhand shot
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two-handed backhand


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"Backhand" Quotes from Famous Books



... in addressing the envelopes at his father's library desk. Five of them were scrawled in a heavy backhand, with the aid of his mother's broad, stub pen, and five more in his normal handwriting. He finished the others in a variety of huge pothooks with blackly crossed "T's" and dotted "I's," and viewed the result of his labors ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... For some brief seconds they gazed upon him stricken into silence as with a physical blow, then with a fierce exclamation the Sioux snatched a rifle from the cave side and quicker than words can tell fired straight at the upright accusing figure. But quicker yet was Jerry's panther-spring. With a backhand he knocked Cameron flat, out of range. Cameron dropped to the floor ...
— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor


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