Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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alt. 1 To be overly friendly with a stranger in order to gain an advantage. 2 To extend a glad hand (to someone). vb. 1 To be overly friendly with a stranger in order to gain an advantage. 2 To extend a glad hand (to someone).
Usage examples of "glad-hand".
Mickey Cohen and Jack Dragna were glad-handing each other, standing by a table laid out with cold cuts, bottles of beer and liquor.
For a while I'd wondered whether we'd be taken straight to the yacht and never actually set foot on the sands of Sonmiani Bay, but we did, plucked from the deck and lowered to the beach in groups of four, and stood in the shade of the enormous stem of the old liner while Mr C glad-handed the boss-men of the ship-breaking concern that would be scrapping the vessel.
THAT SAME TIME The gentleman being escorted by the tuxedo-dressed bellman through the cherry-paneled corridors of the luxurious Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington already had his jolly, glad-handed face on when he entered the small, secluded dining room.
It's more glad-handing than running around with beautiful women and killing super-villains.
Whatever his eyes were, they weren't those of the glad-handing, wisecracking _bon vivant_.
I take it you don't want me charging into the crowd and glad-handing everybody.
He walked past Lomax's table with no sign of recognition, spent a few minutes glad-handing the customers, checked with his gamesmen and dealers to see how the casino was doing, then stopped by the bar for a beer.
It had no detectable partisan tilt, and went on for more than ten minutes, continuing even after Breland left the dais - whereupon he was immediately surrounded and nearly overwhelmed by the glad-handing Senate and House leadership and other front-benchers.
He'll be the big shot in the restaurant, wearing the nice clothes, glad-handing everyone, and you'll be in the back doing the work.
Onions, big, broad, blunt and Lancashireon his feet glad-handing Crawleyan austere, upper-crust copper with the throttled vowels of the Edwardian age, hair almost a coiffure, a pencil-line moustache written on his top lipand Nailer, like every Special Branch copper Troy had ever met, unimaginatively neat, but unimaginatively plain.