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Handkerchief code
Handkerchief code, also called hanky code, bandana code, or flagging: a 1970s American gay leather subculture system of colored handkerchiefs in back pockets signaling sexual interests, left pocket for top, right for bottom, with no universal color list.
Handle (robot)
Handle is a research robot built by Boston Dynamics that balances dynamically on two wheeled legs; unveiled in 2017, it later became the precursor to the warehouse robot Stretch.
Handlebars (Jennie song)
Handlebars is a song by Jennie featuring Dua Lipa, released March 6, 2025. It is the fourth track on Jennie's solo album, Ruby, and peaked at number 80 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Handley Page
Handley Page Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer founded by Frederick Handley Page in 1909, best known for the Halifax bomber and the Victor V-bomber.
Handley Page Halifax
The Handley Page Halifax, known as the Halifax bomber, was a British four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War that served with RAF Bomber Command.
Handley Page Hampden
The Handley Page Hampden was a British twin-engine medium bomber, nicknamed the Flying Suitcase for its narrow 36-inch fuselage, that served Bomber Command from 1938 to 1942.
Handley Page Jetstream
The Handley Page Jetstream, or Scottish Aviation Jetstream, is a British twin-turboprop light transport aircraft designed in the mid-1960s as a 12 to 18 seat feederliner.
Handley Page Victor
The Handley Page Victor was a British four-jet strategic bomber of the Royal Air Force, one of the three V-bombers, later converted to an in-flight refuelling tanker.
Handley power station
Handley power station, also known as the Handley Generating Station, is a natural-gas-fired plant in Fort Worth, Texas, with three steam units totaling about 1,265 MW.
Handling the Undead (film)
Handling the Undead (Håndtering av udøde) is a 2024 Norwegian horror drama, Thea Hvistendahl's debut, adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2005 novel, about three Oslo families whose dead return; Sundance premiere, Méliès d'Or winner.
Handloading
Handloading, also called reloading, is assembling firearm cartridges from a case, primer, propellant, and projectile rather than buying factory ammunition, a hobby done chiefly to save money and improve accuracy.
Handloom sari
Handloom sari: a sari woven on a manually operated loom, legally "any loom other than powerloom" in India. Also called handwoven saree; distinguished from powerloom copies by weave variation and certification marks; 35.22 lakh weavers per the 2019-20 census.
Handmaiden
Handmaiden (also handmaid): an old-fashioned English word for a female servant, and in formal use a thing that supports something else, as in mathematics the handmaiden of the sciences; also the title of Park Chan-wook's 2016 film adapted from Fingersmith.
Handong
Handong (한동) is a Chinese singer from Wuhan, Hubei, and the only foreign member of the South Korean girl group Dreamcatcher, with which she debuted in January 2017.
Handong Sun
Handong Sun is a physicist working in optoelectronics and semiconductor optics, known for lasing from colloidal perovskite nanocrystals and semiconductor microlasers, and elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016.
Handover
Handover, also called handoff, is the cellular network process of transferring an active voice or data session between cell sites as a user moves, keeping the session uninterrupted.
Handover and object handoff
Object handover, also called object handoff, is the joint action in robotics of transferring an object between a human and a robot in either direction.
Handover of Hong Kong
Handover of Hong Kong (香港回歸), also the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong: Britain returned Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 under the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, creating a Special Administrative Region under one country, two systems.
Handpan
Handpan: generic name for a family of pitched steel percussion instruments descended from the Hang, invented 2000 in Bern by Rohner and Schärer at PANArt, played with the hands, and now built by over 300 makers worldwide.
Handré Pollard
Handré Pollard (born 1994) is a South African rugby union fly-half, 87 Springbok caps and 832 points, winner of the 2019 and 2023 Rugby World Cups; clubs include Blue Bulls, Montpellier, Leicester Tigers, and the Bulls.
Hands (The Bear)
"Hands" is season 1, episode 2 of FX's The Bear, written and directed by Christopher Storer, aired June 23, 2022. A surprise health inspection exposes the Beef's cracks while Carmy clashes with Richie, framed by a flashback to his abusive New York chef.
Hands Across America
Hands Across America was a May 25, 1986 USA for Africa fundraiser in which about 5 million people held hands along a 4,125-mile route from New York to Los Angeles, raising roughly $15-34 million for US hunger and homelessness relief.
Hands All Over (album)
Hands All Over is Maroon 5's third studio album (A&M/Octone, September 21, 2010), produced mostly by Mutt Lange in Vevey, Switzerland; it reached Billboard number two and went platinum only after "Moves Like Jagger" was added in 2011.
Hands Free Farm
Hands Free Farm was a research project at Harper Adams University in Shropshire, England, growing and harvesting 35 hectares of crops with retrofitted autonomous machines from 2019 to 2022.
Hands Free Hectare
Hands Free Hectare was a British project by Harper Adams University that grew and harvested a hectare of barley using only autonomous machines, completed in 2017.
Hands of Stone
Hands of Stone, Spanish Manos de piedra, is a 2016 biographical drama by Jonathan Jakubowicz about Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán, starring Edgar Ramírez and Robert De Niro.
Hands off Greenland protests
Hands off Greenland protests are demonstrations since January 2025 in Greenland and Denmark against Donald Trump's plan to acquire or annex Greenland; the largest, on January 17, 2026, drew thousands in Nuuk and Copenhagen.
Hands Off protests
Hands Off protests, also Hands Off!, were US nationwide anti-Trump and anti-DOGE demonstrations on April 5, 2025, held at over 1,200 sites in all 50 states, organized by a 150-group coalition, demanding an end to federal program cuts and attacks on immigrants.
Hands Off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun
Hands Off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun (さわらないで小手指くん) is a Japanese romantic-comedy and ecchi manga by Takuya Shinjō, serialized on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket since 2021; a twelve-episode anime adaptation aired in 2025.
Hands to Myself
"Hands to Myself" is a 2015 Selena Gomez song from the album Revival, also her third single from it. Written with Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter, Max Martin, and Mattman & Robin, it peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 14 in the UK.