two-hander

two-hander (plural two-handers)

1. Something which requires two hands to handle, such as:
   1. A two-handed sword.

      Hyponym: Zweihänder

   2. A food item requiring two hands to eat.
      • 2002, Amy L. Talford, Dying to Meet You, page 142:

        She was munching on a two-hander cheeseburger with one hand, clicking away on her laptop with the other.

      • 2007, Sheree Puccio, Meet Me at Crossbones, page 23:

        The giant oozing pizza burger was a two-hander, Angie tried to balance it, but half the tomato sauce spilled onto the plate.

2. (tennis, informal) Two-handed backhand.
3. (theater, film) A play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.
   • 2013 October 8, Ronald Bergan, “Patrice Chéreau obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In May 2011, Chéreau came to the Young Vic theatre in London to direct I Am the Wind, a 70-minute two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse, which Michael Billington in the Guardian found "hypnotic", admiring the production's "visual bravura".

   • 2021, Jenelle Riley, Variety:

     With a screenplay by Carax and Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks (who also wrote the music and lyrics), the film is largely a two-hander about a famous couple and their talented daughter — the title character.

   • 2025 September 20, Nicolas Rapold, “Obituary: Robert Redford”, in FT Weekend, page 6:

     All the President's Men, the 1976 chronicle of the exposé of Watergate that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, is a consummate two-hander with Hoffman.

4. An ambidextrous person.
   • 1905, John Jackson, Ambidexterity, or, Two-handedness and two-brainedness:

     Ambidexterity is represented by such names as […] Sir Daniel Wilson […] whom, after nearly eighty years of Ambidextral experience as a highly developed two-hander […]

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