Definition of "mano" []

• A hand-held stone or roller for grinding corn or other grains on a metate. (noun)

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• "Now Mitchell Kapor, the Foundation's president, and Michael Godwin, its chief attorney, were confronting federal law enforcement * mano a mano* for the first time ever."
• "I had to tell stories of my strange country, of the things called cities, large villages without a river through them, so big that they held _tini tini tini tini mano mano mano mano_ people, with single houses in which more people worked than there were in all the islands."
• "Rather than prioritizing education, job training, and economic development in at-risk communities as part of gang prevention programs, many Central American governments have initiated what they call mano dura or "iron fist" policies to combat gangs."