Glad-hand
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Glad-hand is a verb meaning (transitive) To be overly friendly with (a stranger) in order to gain an advantage.
Meaning
(transitive) To be overly friendly with (a stranger) in order to gain an advantage.
More Meanings
- To extend a glad hand (to someone); to welcome warmly.
Example Sentences
Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many people. […] The President, in fact, behaved noticeably like a candidate for reelection.
He hangs out at the local club owned by Morton, another white expatriate, played by the reliably unsettling Sergi López, and De Roller grinningly ogles the almost naked bar staff and glad-hands all the other seedy officials there.
Whenever I wasn’t glad-handing NTOC [National Threat Operations Center] leadership at headquarters, I spent my time learning everything I could—“hot-desking” with analysts who worked different programs and different types of targets, so as to be able to teach my fellow team members back in Hawaii the newest ways the agency’s tools might be used.
Word Forms
- glad-hands
- glad-handing
- glad-handed
- gladhand
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ingratiate, gallantize, agrace, gallant, flatter, blithen.
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