Definitions
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- verb transitive To hold in the hand.
- verb transitive, figuratively To watch or attend unnecessarily closely (as if holding a child's hand to lead it along).
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Examples
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The ham hocks are "good literally for 10 days", a sandwich is "literally like a BLT you've never seen before", and at channel4 dot com forward-slash 4food there's information on "a Christmas app which will literally hand-hold you through every second of the very perfect Christmas".
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They moved slowly, as if their bodies weighed tons, never releasing a hand-hold until another had been secured.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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You simply can't hand-hold a camera very still for that long.
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Drivers also started leaving bus-stops before boarding passengers had found a seat or a hand-hold.
Justin Snider: Rage Against the Machine: Why We Should Be Skeptical About Standardized Test Scores 2010
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In my testing I can hand-hold this way to considerably lower shutter speeds than I can with the camera pulled up to my face and I've practiced the "to my face" thing for 40 years, and still use it with my D700.
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Drivers also started leaving bus-stops before boarding passengers had found a seat or a hand-hold.
Justin Snider: Rage Against the Machine: Why We Should Be Skeptical About Standardized Test Scores Justin Snider 2010
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Stretching his one arm up, the Gryphon suddenly felt his other paw slip away from the wall, the loose dirt in his grip all that was left of his hand-hold.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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Stretching his one arm up, the Gryphon suddenly felt his other paw slip away from the wall, the loose dirt in his grip all that was left of his hand-hold.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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Stretching his one arm up, the Gryphon suddenly felt his other paw slip away from the wall, the loose dirt in his grip all that was left of his hand-hold.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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There is no way to hand-hold a camera absolutely still for six seconds.
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