"glad-hand" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: glad-hands [present, singular, third-person], glad-handing [participle, present], glad-handed [participle, past], glad-handed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} glad-hand (third-person singular simple present glad-hands, present participle glad-handing, simple past and past participle glad-handed)
  1. (transitive) To be overly friendly with (a stranger) in order to gain an advantage. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-glad-hand-en-verb-Fo5zxplK
  2. To extend a glad hand (to someone); to welcome warmly. Synonyms: gladhand
    Sense id: en-glad-hand-en-verb-fKCzrHx- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 88

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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