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Involving active participation.

Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions.

Someone who has hands-on experience of something has done or used it rather than just read or learned about it.

"Hands-on investor" is an investor who has a large stake in a corporation and takes an active role in its management.
1.) I'm a 'hands-on' kind of manager so I don't stay in my office with the door always closed.

2.) Many employers consider hands-on experience to be as useful as academic qualifications.

3.) She's very much a hands-on manager.
hands-on by VAKI5 May 18, 2005
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1. active and practical

2. controlled manually rather than automatically.
hands-on by The Return Of Light Joker November 29, 2007

hands on site 

The act of which you will fuck a nigga up as soon as you see him
Fuck drew santistevan. Hands on site nigga
hands on site by Fuck drew February 15, 2018

hands on your knees 

„Hands on your knees I’m Angelina Jolie“

Usually describes giving head
„Lemme put my hands on your knees you can braid my hair do a fat crisscross in the back somewhere“

Hands on the bat 

The opposite of Ski poles (one girl, two men- one on either side). Derived from playground baseball games when the captains put their hands on the bat to decide which team goes first. Many hands on one penis.
"I met these two tricks last night...took them back to my place and they put their hands on the bat"
Hands on the bat by Señor_Cardgage October 24, 2011

hands on deck 

someone who can fight. the type of person who'll knock ya ass out in a fight.
Try me if you want shawty, i got hands on deck.
hands on deck by Ansia August 18, 2008

Hands on hips 

Professional porn star move where the man is behind the woman with hands on hips thrusting. Usually look at the camera.
This dude is totally doing hands on hips to that chick.
Hands on hips by Meatstick1 August 17, 2007
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Take the big pirogue, I saw a huge swamp dog out there earlier.
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The feeling and build up in your mouth/throat of saliva that sometimes accompanies nausea.
Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
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Person 2:......
Person 3: O no u got aired!
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piddlefart

verb. To waste time doing nothing.
Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
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anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
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square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
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