hand out

See also: handout

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

hand out (third-person singular simple present hands out, present participle handing out, simple past and past participle handed out)

1. (transitive) to distribute
   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.

Usage notes

The object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

Translations

to distribute

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分配 (zh) (fēnpèi)

• French: distribuer (fr)
• German: verteilen (de), austeilen
• Icelandic: útbýta, dreifa (is)
• Italian: distribuire (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 配る (ja) (くばる, kubaru), 配布する (はいふする, haifu suru)
• Latin: distribuō
• Portuguese: distribuir (pt)
• Russian: раздава́ть (ru) impf (razdavátʹ), разда́ть (ru) pf (razdátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: делити (deliti)
• Turkish: dağıtmak (tr)

Phrase

(deprecated template usage) hand out

1. (baseball, slang, 1800s) a player is out