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hand-out
[f. hand v. + out adv.; see also hand n. 65.]
1. a. That which is handed out; spec. (a) food or alms given to a beggar at the door; (b) a gift of money. orig. U.S.
1882Sweet & Knox Texas Siftings 195 If I can't get a ‘hand-out’ for it I can at least expatiate on its merits. 1887M. Roberts Western Avernus 71 ‘Bummers’ is American for beggars, and a ‘hand out’ is a portion of food handed out to a bummer or a tramp at the door when he is not asked inside. 1896Dialect Notes I. 418 Hand-out, clothes such as a tramp asks for. 1896Ade Artie vi. 50, I see barrel-house boys goin' around for hand outs that was more on the level than you was. 1903Daily Chron. 4 Apr. 5/2 The weekly hand-out for the butcher. 1904‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 32 Pretty soon I was in the free-bed line and doing oral fiction for hand-outs among the food bazaars. 1925W. Cather Professor's House 195 He soon drank up all his wages. When Rapp picked him up there he was living on hand-outs. 1931C. Massie Confessions of Vagabond vii. 74 Tramps will often travel a hundred miles to one particular spot where they are sure to get a ‘hand-out’. 1946Wodehouse Joy in Morning vi. 45, I can well imagine a man of conservative views recoiling from one which might come asking for handouts for the rest of its life. 1959Daily Tel. 27 July 12/6 The report in yesterday's newspapers that Mr. Nixon, on an early morning visit to a Moscow market, had tried to give a 100-rouble note as a ‘hand-out’ to a worker. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. B4/3 Poor countries realize part of the burden lies on them... They're no longer just looking for handouts.
b. attrib.; spec. providing light refreshments in a handy form.
1910Salt Lake Tribune 27 Nov. 32/7 On the first floor ‘hand-out’ luncheons were being served. 1928F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial viii. 277, I would take a good walk, get a bite to eat at one of the hand-out places in the vicinity of the station. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 79/3 The future of our industry is going to rely much more on capital grants than on hand-out grants.
2. Matter handed out to or by the newspaper press; more generally, matter handed out from any source to convey information, guidance, etc.
1927Amer. Speech II. 242/1 To get pictures and ‘hand⁓outs’, that is, prepared statements given to the press by officials or other prominent persons. 1929Literary Digest 12 Oct. 7/1 Mr. Shearer told..how he gave the newspaper men at Geneva ‘hand-outs’ to help them in preparing their despatches. 1929Sat. Even. Post 7 Dec. 213/2 We have public-relations experts who do their stuff by means of propaganda in the press and hand-outs to the newspaper boys and girls. 1942Punch 8 July 8/2 An N.C.O. distributes hand-outs in which we are warned that the information given on this course is going to be the most secret. 1942Gen 15 Sept. 24/2 White feather hand-outs..to men and women not in uniform have now reached epidemic proportions. 1945Ann. Reg. 1944 251 The Spanish official ‘hand-out’..was a masterpiece of nebulous verbiage. 1951Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Nov. 2 Fakes a handout to several of his team. 1958Punch 8 Jan. 84/2 B.O.A.C. hadn't given me a free briefcase full of handouts for nothing. 1959‘H. Howard’ Deadline viii. 66 A little loose-leaf notebook issued as a free handout by Hopalong Cassidy Enterprises. 1965Spectator 22 Jan. 92/2 The handout is a (necessary) curse of modern political life. It shackles the speaker and bores his audience, but it delights the reporter. 1972‘G. Black’ Bitter Tea (1973) iv. 63 Not a handout likely to satisfy a newspaper reporter, Inspector. |