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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.
My teacher has a hands-on policy.
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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Concrete cowboy 

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.
Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
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any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear
hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh
hobo loko by d i z k o 2 0 8 September 14, 2026
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God Shot 

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011
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city chicken 

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006
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Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake
Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026
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