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right-handed

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Definition of right-handed

adjective

  • 1(of a person) using the right hand more naturally than the left:a right-handed golfer
  • (of a tool or item of equipment) made to be used with the right hand:a right-handed guitar
  • made or done with the right hand:right-handed batting
  • 2(of a screw) advanced by turning clockwise.
  • Biology (of a spiral shell or helix) dextral: normally the shell and body are coiled in a right-handed spiral
  • (of a racecourse) turning clockwise: right-handed tracks like Longchamp

adverb

  • with the right hand:Jackson bats right-handed

Derivatives

right-handedly

adverb

right-handedness

noun

right-handed in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of right-handed in the US English dictionary
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