handwarmer

[ hand-wawr-mer ]

noun

1. a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.

Word History and Origins

Origin of handwarmer¹

hand + warm + -er ¹

Example Sentences

U.S. goalkeeper Matt Turner, who looked more like a cross-country skier than a soccer player, took the field with a quarterback-style handwarmer provided by the Minnesota Vikings.

From Los Angeles Times

In the van on the way back to the hotel, Noah cracked a handwarmer to life and slipped it between our palms.

From New York Times

Blough has offered to pay the first person who can win NFL MVP and a Super Bowl on the game's most difficult setting by using him—and not Browns starter Baker Mayfield whose handwarmer has more talent than his understudy according to the Madden overlords.

From Golf Digest

One man eyed a festooned pole and grabbed a handwarmer packet.

From Washington Times

And so, needy, cold people did, stopping to examine the offerings, unknotting a scarf and wrapping it around their necks, donning gloves or pocketing a handwarmer packet.

From Washington Times