Usually means: Dismissive phrase ignoring what's said.
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  1. talk to the hand: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. talk to the hand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. talk to the hand: Wiktionary
  4. talk to the hand: Dictionary.com
  5. Talk to the Hand, Talk to the hand (disambiguation), Talk to the hand (expression), Talk to the hand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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verb:  (colloquial, US, African-American Vernacular, chiefly sarcastic) Used to dismiss another person's argument by indicating that one is not prepared to hear or read anything further from that person. It is often used while simultaneously holding up the hand with the palm facing the speaker.

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