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Shovel Hands

Shovel Hands is a derrogatory name given to a person (usually male) with notably large and indelicate hands. Shovel Hands is the opposite of Piano Hands...which is only used to describe those with large, but delicate, hands.
Shovel Hands could, for example, be used to describe the hands of Lennie in Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'

shovel hands

some who has massive hands or hands disproportionate to the rest of their body
Jesus christ, did you see that guy's shovel hands.

I never trust a guy with massive shovel hands

Higgings my old man, u have the world biggest shovel hands
shovel hands by roussel1983 August 25, 2009

Shovel in hand 

Replying to someone with, " Shovel in hand", means you can dig it. (I agree, I understand, I like it)
(statement) We have to be at work earlier today because we didn't finish yesterday's load!

(Reply) Shovel in hand, I'll be there.
Shovel in hand by Ja'vae December 14, 2023

Extra hand shove 

Where you have to give someone something but you don't want too. So,when you put it in there hand you push it back much more than is necessary to show that you resent doing it.
When he payed me back he gave me an extra hand shove.
Extra hand shove by Judge dredd7 February 11, 2012

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026