"hand-to-hand" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-|head=hand-to-hand}} hand-to-hand (not comparable)
  1. Close together, within arm's reach. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-hand-to-hand-en-adj-RFHzts9u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 79 21 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 74 26 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 79 21
  2. Especially, describing fighting (armed or unarmed) done within reach rather than at range. Tags: not-comparable Translations (fighting done within reach rather than at range): αὐτοσχεδόν (autoskhedón) [adverb] (Ancient Greek), corps à corps (French), corpo a corpo (Italian), all'arma bianca (Italian), рако́пашен (rakópašen) (Macedonian), taumātakitahi (Maori), tautakitahi (Maori), tautaumātakitahi (Maori)
    Sense id: en-hand-to-hand-en-adj-RdTt3bQC Disambiguation of 'fighting done within reach rather than at range': 12 88

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