hand running

English

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Adverb

hand running (not comparable)

  1. (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.
    • 1944, Damon Runyon, The Lacework Kid
      Well, Schultz is around after me again that night to take me to the house in the grove, and in fact every night for a month hand-running I play the captain and it is not long before I am beating him like breaking sticks.

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