right-handed

Speech parts

1. right-handed - Noun

2. right-handed - Adjective

3. right-handed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.

Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.

Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.

Alternative names

right handed

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Examples

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed. Dustin Diamond

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends. Josh Charles

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions. Philip Emeagwali

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief. Whitey Herzog

Leo never was much of a hitter. I tried to help him once. I suggested that he become a switch-hitter and that if he did, his average would jump up to.400. "Two hundred right-handed and two hundred left," I said. Babe Ruth

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.' Dick Dale

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