hand running

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hand running (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) consecutively; in a row
    He won ten times hand running.
    • 1923, Robert Ervin Howard, The Sheik:
      He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws. Then he had played tiddledywinks with the Sultan of Turkey and had beaten him forty-seven times, hand-running.

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