hand and foot

adverb

: totally, assiduously

Examples of hand and foot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Carruthers' lawyer witnessed the attempts and said the team tried to insert an IV in Carruthers’ arm, hand and foot before attempting to insert a central line. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

The team tried Carruthers’ arm, hand and foot before moving to a central line. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026

In five whole-body tasks, the system achieved an average success rate of 75 percent, including object pickup, opening a trash can with a foot pedal, and coordinating hand and foot movements to move a soda can into the bin. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026

During Pan’s operation, Kwan-Feinberg sat at a console and used hand and foot controls to guide the robot’s small 3D camera and surgical instruments through an inclusion beneath each arm. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 30 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hand and foot

• occiput
• tenderfoot
• underfoot
• afoot
• barefoot
• bigfoot
• blackfoot
• caput
• clubfoot
• cocksfoot
• crowfoot
• forefoot