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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" Quotes from Famous Books



... that remote period, the age of myths. It is consistent, for nearly all anonymous letters are myths. A wife stays out late; her actions may be quite harmless, only indiscreet. There is, alack! always some intimate friend who sees, who dabbles her pen in the ink-well and labors over a backhand stroke. It is her bounden duty to inform the husband forthwith. The letter may wreck two lives, but what is this beside stern, implacable duty? When man writes an anonymous letter he is in want of money; when woman writes one she is in ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath


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