手貼り
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Meanings
1
hand-pasting; attaching by hand
Refers to manually pasting or attaching items such as stickers, labels, or posters, as opposed to using a machine.
Please attach this label by hand.
Hand-pasting stamps on a large number of envelopes is tough.
2
gambling on credit; gambling without money upfront
Only when written 手張り
A gambling arrangement where no money is put down at the time of betting, with the understanding that losses will be paid later. Restricted to the 手張り spelling.
It seems that in old gambling dens there was a method called 手張り, where bets were made on credit.