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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glad-hand.

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Examples

  • Share your gripes and glad-hands in the commments.

    GIMP 2.6 Adds 32-Bit Support, GUI Improvements | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • Share your gripes and glad-hands in the commments.

    GIMP 2.6 Adds 32-Bit Support, GUI Improvements | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • "Fuck smilie glad-hands with hidden agendas" so i, m sitting here on my laptop. thinking about this move that is ahead of us right now. where are we going?

    fallen9angel Diary Entry fallen9angel 2004

  • And, usually, when a candidate for president meets a network correspondent for the first time, he glad-hands him and pretends that they're old friends.

    Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992 1993

  • Where else can voters witness a man with sights on the White House, like GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, wearing a sunny smile while he glad-hands his way through a gun store - deftly kissing babies one minute and admiring the stock of rifles the next?

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Chron cmarinucci@sfchronicle.com (Carla Marinucci 2012

  • Where else can voters witness a man with sights on the White House, like GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, wearing a sunny smile while he glad-hands his way through a gun store - deftly kissing babies one minute and admiring the stock of rifles the next?

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • But these are still the Red Sox, and behind the back slaps, glad-hands, and frozen smiles lurked some awkward truths, many owed to the protracted process that produced Valentine.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • With his bright red shirt, red apron and beaming countenance - I would say he is the Danny Kaye of integralism - Riccioli is a sight to behold as he glad-hands his way around the magnificent restaurant premises designed by David Collins Studio.

    Evening Standard - Home Fay Maschler 2011

  • Where else can voters witness a man with sights on the White House, like GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, wearing a sunny smile while he glad-hands his way through a gun store - deftly kissing babies one minute and admiring the stock of rifles the next?

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Chron cmarinucci@sfchronicle.com (Carla Marinucci 2012

  • Sen. Michael Bennet sends Latino lieutenants to hang signs in restaurants on Santa Fe Drive in metro Denver, while Republican Ken Buck glad-hands Washington County commissioners and dotes on shoulder-sitting toddlers on the Eastern Plains.

    Colorado: Last grab at nailing last votes - US News 2010

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