Usually means: Deceptive, sneaky method or technique.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word underhand:

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

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  1. underhand: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Secret; clandestine.
adjective:  (by extension) Dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner.
adjective:  (in various ball games, of a ball) Thrown (etc.) with the hand brought forward and up from below.
adverb:  With an underhand movement.
adverb:  In a sly, sneaky or secret manner.
verb:  (transitive) To toss or lob with an underhand movement.
verb:  (transitive) To trick, deceive or gull.
verb:  (mining) To excavate downward in successive steps or horizontal slices while positioned above on unbroken ore.
noun:  (textiles) The lower of two hands, the hand under the work.

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