Definitions for handles

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handles han·dle

Spelling: [han-dl]

IPA: /ˈhæn dl/

Handles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in handles (adehlns).

Definitions for handles

noun

1. a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
2. that which may be held, seized, grasped, or taken advantage of in effecting a purpose:
3. Slang. a person's name, especially the given name. a person's alias, nickname, or code name. a username, as on a social media website: a name or term by which something is known, described, or explained.
4. the total amount wagered on an event, series of events, or for an entire season or seasons, as at a gambling casino or in horse racing:
5. the total amount of money taken in by a business concern on one transaction, sale, event, or series of transactions, or during a specific period, especially by a theater, nightclub, sports arena, resort hotel, or the like.
6. hand (def 27).
7. Informal. a way of getting ahead or gaining an advantage:

Idioms

1. fly off the handle, Informal. to become very agitated or angry, especially without warning or adequate reason:
2. get / have a handle on, to acquire an understanding or knowledge of:

verb (used with object)

1. to touch, pick up, carry, or feel with the hand or hands; use the hands on; take hold of.
2. to manage, deal with, or be responsible for:
3. to use or employ, especially in a particular manner; manipulate:
4. to manage, direct, train, or control:
5. to deal with (a subject, theme, argument, etc.):
6. to deal with or treat in a particular way:
7. to deal or trade in:

verb (used without object)

1. to behave or perform in a particular way when handled, directed, managed, etc.:

Origin of handles

before 900; (noun) Middle English handel, Old English hand(e)le, derivative of hand; (verb) Middle English handelen, Old English handlian (cognate with German handlen

Examples for handles

Stones: those big heavy looking things with handles on them that slide on the ice.

They should be held by the handles, and the longer the handles the more convenient.

Stewart handles the Daily Show mention well, having Jones himself reshoot the segment with Bernal as Bahari.

But he grinned with hope when his head struck one of the handles.

A second area that Republican challengers could have raised: how the Senate handles the reporting of personal finances.

But Amanda's small hands only grasped the handles more tightly, and she went on.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) handles all of the grants to perform research with cannabis.

But such is the magic of genius, which changes all it handles into gold!

Or maybe it was from the handles of a grocery store shopping cart.

She does all things well, handles a sword nearly as well as I do.