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glad-hand /ˈglædˌhænd/ verb
glad-hands; glad-handed; glad-handing
glad-hand
/ˈglædˌhænd/
verb
glad-hands; glad-handed; glad-handing
Learner's definition of GLAD-HAND
[+ object]
: to give a friendly welcome or greeting to (people) as a way of getting approval热烈欢迎,热情招呼(以获得认同)

glad-hand

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verb

glad-handed; glad-handing; glad-hands

transitive verb

: to extend a glad hand to
candidates glad-handing everyone they meet

intransitive verb

: to extend a glad hand
glad-handing as if he were running for mayor
glad-hander noun

glad hand

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noun

: a warm welcome or greeting often prompted by ulterior reasons

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Arguably the most notorious figure from the game’s most storied rivalry flew from his South Florida home to Boston for Tuesday night’s game and was expected to glad hand a few Yankees before, for many of them, the biggest game of their lives. Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021 His medium, his material, is human frailty, the near end of original sin, and the tools of his trade are the glad hand, the scratched back, the padded envelope, the cut corner, and the jumped line. James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1903, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Noun

circa 1895, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of glad-hand was circa 1895

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