helping hand

1. 1.

   physical assistance

   “give me a hand with the chores”

   Synonymshand

   Broaderaid

Questions about helping hand

What does helping hand mean?

helping hand means "physical assistance".

What is another word for helping hand?

Close synonyms include hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is helping hand a common word?

helping hand 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.