: having a palm of a specified kind
—used in combination
leather-palmed gloves
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Her fingers extend toward the camera in an open-palmed, defensive position, their tips trembling.
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New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
This was before the days when sweaty-palmed beat writers spent the final minutes in the press box furiously writing online recaps that publish as soon as the game ends.
—Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 1 Apr. 2020
For pennies to the pound, sweaty-palmed readers could indulge their paranoia in tales of the weird, the fantastic, the alien and the just plain disturbing.
—Neely Tucker, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2017
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New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
This was before the days when sweaty-palmed beat writers spent the final minutes in the press box furiously writing online recaps that publish as soon as the game ends.
—Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 1 Apr. 2020
For pennies to the pound, sweaty-palmed readers could indulge their paranoia in tales of the weird, the fantastic, the alien and the just plain disturbing.
—Neely Tucker, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2017
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“Palmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palmed. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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