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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
handy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/useful/helpful/handy tip
▪ Go to their website to find useful tips on buying and selling a home.
a useful/handy checklist
▪ This is a useful checklist for anyone travelling abroad.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪ For those of us who are less fortunate, Correct Letters could come in handy.
▪ Extra money will come in handy as there will soon be a particular project to support.
▪ Don't forget the Survival Pack, which is bound to come in handy.
▪ Spreadsheet convert to values One useful trick that often comes in handy is to convert an entire spreadsheet to values.
▪ The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days.
▪ Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
▪ And both of these were to come in handy.
▪ I had organised two more fallback packages that would come in handy now.
very
▪ It was something he felt might come in very handy.
▪ Border fork A smaller version of a digging fork; very handy for working among close-spaced plants and lifting individual seedlings.
▪ The matches are designed not to blow out in strong winds or when immersed in water. Very handy.
▪ Missile troops positioned on hilltops are very handy for protecting artillery units.
▪ One thousand smackers would come in very handy at the moment.
▪ There was something very handy about the way this story had come out.
▪ The bike came in very handy then because it's about nine miles to Cotherstone, where we used to meet.
▪ Getting to use a whole extra rank of weapons in the face of a charge can come in very handy.
■ NOUN
hint
▪ Readers with humorous computing tales or handy hints are welcome to write to Fatal Dos Error at the usual address.
▪ None of them ever enlivened maths lessons with a few handy hints about alternative sexuality.
▪ Here to get you started are a few ... Practical pointers and handy hints 1 Think about your class and year group.
▪ Practical pointers and handy hints 1 Don't feel a failure if you've never had a boyfriend or girlfriend.
tip
▪ All it takes is some imagination to think up handy tips to help other producers.
▪ This is a handy tip for setting a home-built kite bridle.
▪ On page 26 we suggest handy tips for teaching her to dress herself.
▪ Any handy tips for good, strong growth, please?
▪ The associated language analysis is useful as a reference work and set of handy tips.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a handy chart for converting pounds into kilos
▪ A lot of people in the States have a gun handy at night and when they travel.
▪ Add a rail to keep kitchen equipment handy.
▪ It's a handy way of keeping a record of your spending.
▪ Make sure you keep your passport and ticket handy.
▪ Many fruit juices are now available in handy little cartons.
▪ There's a handy cup holder under the car radio.
▪ There's a special brush you can attach to the vacuum cleaner, which is handy for cleaning the stairs.
▪ This handy booklet tells you everything you need to know about getting connected to the Internet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A handy ditty when competing with other firms.
▪ Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
▪ He tied the reins to a handy bush and followed the sound of Blondel's voice.
▪ They should become handier about the house and less concerned with work.
▪ This command centre is handy to use for your own files and is great when you're designing applications at work.
▪ What I was about to learn, however, is that the poem was equally handy when competing within Salomon Brothers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handy

Handy \Hand"y\ (h[a^]nd"[y^]), a. [Compar. Handier (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Handiest.] [OE. hendi, AS. hendig (in comp.), fr. hand hand; akin to D. handig, Goth. handugs clever, wise.]

  1. Performed by the hand. [Obs.]

    To draw up and come to handy strokes.
    --Milton.

  2. Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit. ``Each is handy in his way.''
    --Dryden.

  3. Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume.

  4. (Naut.) Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
handy

c.1300, "skilled with the hands" (implied in surnames), from hand (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "conveniently accessible" is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
handy

a. 1 Easy to use, useful. 2 nearby, within reach. 3 (context dialect English) dexterous, skilful 4 Description applied to freight ships which have a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT). Member of the handysize class.

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WordNet
handy

  1. adj. easy to reach; "found a handy spot for the can opener" [syn: convenient, ready to hand(p)]

  2. easy to use; "a handy gadget"

  3. skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"

  4. [also: handiest, handier]

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Wikipedia
Handy

Handy may refer to:

Handy (song)

"Handy" is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his fourteenth studio album, Mandatory Fun (2014). The song is a parody of the 2014 single " Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, featuring Charli XCX. Yankovic met Azalea in person for permission to spoof the song, and he completed his track shortly before the album was mastered and released. "Handy" focuses on a character who brags about his abilities regarding various handyman tasks. The music video was released on July 17, 2014 and features Yankovic assuming the character portrayed in the song. "Handy" received a mixed response from music critics.

Handy (company)

Handy is an online two-sided market place for residential cleanings and other home services. Founded in 2012, it operates in United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.

Usage examples of "handy".

Not one of the better songs but they did a job, they were very handy for albums or sides.

From the gun case he got his Baretta and tucked it into the back of his jeans, handy but out of sight beneath his shirt.

Officer Handy was coming down the hill behind them, sirens on, red bubblegum machine lights on top whirling away, flashing red and white.

A safety pin adorns a conspicuous spot on the front of his unironed shirt, handy for removing chonta palm thorns from his feet.

Moments later the wind shifted ninety degrees and increased to a speed that made the sailors cling for dear life to deck cleats, if they happened to be on board, and to the handiest vegetation if they did not.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing, by Joseph Triemens This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

But the practice would come in handy when the dogs would wade with the men to the beaches of the islands of the Pacific.

People going up never met the people coming downa handy trick in the sixteenth century for getting out of the place.

But the DB III had the advantage of an up-to-date triptyque, an inconspicuous colour - battleship grey -and certain extras which might or might not come in handy.

And all of you be sure to wear these capes with the gasproof hoods, and have the hoods handy.

I must find Gobbo the handy man -- there is the toilet in Signor Falco, the broken window in Madam Jordan and the doorknob in my bedroom .

Did a few handy local hops, politely explaining that I lived in Bray and was rarely out around these parts and would thus have to be carefully directed every step of the way.

I started pulling out my briefing sheet from my kneeboard, the handy device that snaps around your upper leg and holds all the mission briefing crap.

Handy, Edward Payson Terhune, Pearl Mesta, Woodrow Wilson, and a host of others.

But a step in the required direction it was beyond yea or nay and both monetarily and mentally it contained no reflection on his dignity in the smallest and it often turned in uncommonly handy to be handed a cheque at a muchneeded moment when every little helped.