Definitions for hand-to-mouth

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Spelling: [hand-tuh-mouth]
IPA: /ˈhænd təˈmaʊθ/

Hand-To-Mouth is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 346 anagrams from letters in hand-to-mouth (--adhhmnoottu).

Definitions for hand-to-mouth

adjective

  1. offering or providing the barest livelihood, sustenance, or support; meager; precarious:

Origin of hand-to-mouth

First recorded in 1500-10

Examples for hand-to-mouth

Yes, by my pen will I live; if it is a hand-to-mouth existence, it is at least free.

But this nomadic, hand-to-mouth life could not go on indefinitely.

The people are rooted to the soil, and the vast majority are living a hand-to-mouth life.

The Cato Street conspirators gave Cruikshank hand-to-mouth work.

He must get some of the hated skits ready for the Sunday paper from which he drew a hand-to-mouth living.

They are all hand-to-mouth working men: they live by the job when they can get any.

There followed three similar years of a hand-to-mouth existence, the privations of which he endured in silence.

Ah, if only we had something better to expect than this hand-to-mouth existence!

hand-to-mouth is a bad principle when you have a growing child.'

He has a hand-to-mouth, nomad existence, ending in the inevitable frozen misery of the workhouse.

Word Value for hand-to-mouth
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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