Usually means: Tennis stroke hit with palm.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word forehand:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. forehand: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. forehand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forehand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forehand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forehand: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forehand, forehand: Wordnik
  7. forehand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Forehand, forehand: Wiktionary
  9. forehand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forehand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forehand: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Forehand, forehand: Dictionary.com
  13. forehand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Forehand (horse), Forehand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Forehand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. forehand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. forehand: Rhymezone
  18. Forehand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. forehand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. forehand: Free Dictionary
  21. forehand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. forehand: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. forehand: Encyclopedia

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  1. forehand: Medical dictionary

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  1. forehand: Urban Dictionary

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Forehand: Tennis Glossary
  3. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  6. Forehand: Sports Definitions

(Note: See forehanding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (racket sports) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
noun:  (disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
noun:  All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
noun:  (archaic) The chief or most important part.
noun:  Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
noun:  (surfing) The hand towards the front of the board.
adjective:  Beforehand; paid in advance.
verb:  (transitive) To strike with a forehand stroke.
noun:  A surname.

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