hands-down

1. 1.

   achieved without great effort

   “a hands-down victory”

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Questions about hands-down

What does hands-down mean?

hands-down means "achieved without great effort".

How many syllables are in hands-down?

hands-down has 2 syllables and divides as hands--down under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hands-down a common word?

hands-down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.