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  1. hand-wave: Wordnik
  2. hand-wave: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hand-wave)

verb:  Alternative form of handwave. [(rhetoric, academia) To explain something superficially, skipping over important details, perhaps appealing to intuition instead.]


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