hand-out

Deverbal from hand out.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhændaʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhændˌaʊt/

hand-out (plural hand-outs)

1. (racquets, real tennis, squash) A player to whom a ball is served.

   Coordinate term: hand-in

2. Alternative form of handout.
   • 1925, Willa Cather, chapter III, in The Professor’s House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, book II (Tom Outland’s Story), page 196:

     They dropped old Henry at Tarpin, where he soon drank up all his wages. When Rapp picked him up there, he was living on hand-outs.

• handout (unofficial)

Borrowed from English handout.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛnd.ɑu̯t/, (generally used by people with worse English skills) /ɦɛntˈɑu̯t/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: hand-out

hand-out m (plural hand-outs)

1. handout (piece(s) of papers to be given out)