1. all hands - Noun
2. all hands - Adjective
all hands pl (plural only)
All of the passengers and crew of a ship.
all-hands (not comparable)
Requiring the involvement of everyone available.
all-hands
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. Van Jones
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. Buckminster Fuller
We hear talk of sanctified selfishness, of the adorable expansion of one race across the others, of noble hatreds and glorious conquests, and we see these ideals trying to take shape on all hands. Henri Barbusse
The mechanism of reaching equilibrium by means of a rising cost of living, which is vainly pursued by a rising level of wages, will be described in the next chapter. But it is admitted on all hands that this is the worst possible solution. John Maynard Keynes
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck. Ann Landers
In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet