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hand-to-hand

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Close together, within arm's reach.
  2. Especially, describing fighting (armed or unarmed) done within reach rather than at range.

    soldiers trained in hand-to-hand combat

    Hemingway's subject for the epilogue was the mano a mano (or hand-to-hand, a duel) between Spain's two leading matadors, Luis Miguel Dominguin and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordonez.