What does hand-to-hand mean?

hand-to-hand

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Frequency: 5.11 in modern English

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adj

"soldiers trained in hand-to-hand combat"
"Hemingway's subject for the epilogue was the mano a mano (or hand-to-hand, a duel) between Spain's two leading matadors, Luis Miguel Dominguin and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordonez."

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