- hands-down winner/favourite/choice easily the winner of a contest; definitely the one that people prefer
- These kits were hands-down favourites with our testers.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHands-down is used with these nouns:- favourite
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Idioms
See hands-down in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhands down
- (informal) easily and without any doubt
- They won hands down.
- It is hands down the best movie this year.
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