What is "gladhand"

Usage examples of "gladhand".

He saw Mayor Jasper Fitzgerald up near the front, gladhanding the head of the city council.

Saturday night Edward Livingston had been at the Opera House gladhanding a group of society matrons who formed the influential fund-raising committee of a national charity.

And, right now, Preacher was coming hard up the backdoor step of the classroom with his gladhanding deacons in tow.

Nearly every man in the street who saw Bowie gladhanded him, patted him on the back.

Turning, he saw Cohen being gladhanded by Tom Breneman and the maitre d’, out of eyeshot.

Now he whooped noisily into a microphone, and waved his big ten-gallon hat in the air, and gladhanded his guests.