Definition of "three-handed" []

• Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "And In three-handed bridge, the dummy was the fourth pile of cards on the floor, which he always wanted but seldom got."
• "The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009, Icon, 18) is a stripped-down, three-handed thriller shot almost entirely on a single-location set; a fortified room in which the eponymous heroine is held."
• "The Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgenev Every suspect character in Turgenev's stories seems dedicated to playing "preference", a kind of three-handed whist."