handholdless adjective2 •(Internet) Usually of a man: having never held hands with a member of the opposite sex. •(rare) Lacking a handhold ("a projection that one may hold onto for support").One false move and I'm down the slope on a mudslide, a gangly pebble in a debris flow, over a short, straight, handholdless twenty-foot drop into the flood, and whisked away into nothingness. — 2007
