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[ adjective ] being at close quarters

Examples

"hand-to-hand fighting"

Used in print

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

The incubation_period of infectious_disease , plus a variable period of illness even before a lethal effect , render this weapon unsuitable for hand-to-hand encounter .

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out_of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting .

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