hand out

See also: handout, Handout, and hand-out

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

hand out (third-person singular simple present hands out, present participle handing out, simple past and past participle handed out)

1. (transitive) To distribute; to give out, either by hand or as if so (figuratively). [from 17th c.]

   Coordinate term: hand over

   Near-synonyms: give out, pass out, send out

   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.

2. To help (someone) from a vehicle.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, ch. 10:

     ‘Lydgate has a lot of ideas […] ,’ resumed Mr Brooke, after he had handed out Lady Chettam, and had returned to be civil to a group of Middlemarchers.

   • 2008, Deborah Weisgall, The World Before Her, page 107:

     He jumped onto the deck and handed her out of the gondola.

3. (slang) To try to impress (someone) with deceptions.

Derived terms

• hand it out
• handout (noun)
• hand-out (noun)

 

Translations

to distribute

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分配 (zh) (fēnpèi)

• French: distribuer (fr)
• German: verteilen (de), austeilen (de)
• Icelandic: útbýta, dreifa (is)
• Italian: distribuire (it)
• Japanese: 配る (ja) (くばる, kubaru), 配布する (ja) (はいふする, haifu suru)
• Latin: distribuō
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dele ut (no), fordele, distribuere

• Polish: rozdać (pl) pf, rozdawać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: distribuir (pt)
• Romanian: distribui (ro)
• Russian: раздава́ть (ru) impf (razdavátʹ), разда́ть (ru) pf (razdátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: делити (deliti)
• Turkish: dağıtmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: роздава́ти impf (rozdaváty), розда́ти pf (rozdáty)

Phrase

hand out

1. (baseball, slang, 1800s) a player is out