Definition of "barehanded" [bare•hand•ed]

• With no covering on the hands: barehanded boxing. (adverb)

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• "'' As it was, the kid came in barehanded, and the first baseman made a real nice catch. ''"
• "Mitchell overran the ball, had to reach back and pluck it barehanded from the sky, a guaranteed end-of-the-millennium highlight film clip."
• "He doesn't know you aren't some kind of barehanded assassin!"