Usually means: Handle or move with force.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. manhandle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. manhandle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. manhandle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. manhandle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. manhandle: Vocabulary.com
  6. manhandle: Wordnik
  7. manhandle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. manhandle: Wiktionary
  9. manhandle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. manhandle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. manhandle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Manhandle, manhandle: Dictionary.com
  13. manhandle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. manhandle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. manhandle: Rhymezone
  16. manhandle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. manhandle: Free Dictionary
  18. manhandle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. manhandle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. manhandle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manhandle: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manhandle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See manhandled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To move something heavy by force of men, without aid of levers, pulleys, machine, or tackles.
verb:  (transitive) To assault or beat up a person.
verb:  (transitive) To mishandle; to handle roughly; to mangle.
verb:  (transitive) To control (a machine, vehicle, situation, etc.) by means of physical strength.

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