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- verb Present participle of
glad-hand . - noun
action of the verb to glad-hand
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Examples
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So what's with the photograph of him glad-handing bikers who according to NBC brag about their association with the Outlaws?
Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies Michael Winship 2010
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So what's with the photograph of him glad-handing bikers who according to NBC brag about their association with the Outlaws?
Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies Michael Winship 2010
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Word is he drank so heavily just to do the glad-handing routine that a half-hour into the party, sick from drink, he vomited in the museum galleries.
Mat Gleason: January '11 L.A. Art World Gossip Mat Gleason 2011
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So what's with the photograph of him glad-handing bikers who according to NBC brag about their association with the Outlaws?
Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies Michael Winship 2010
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Word is he drank so heavily just to do the glad-handing routine that a half-hour into the party, sick from drink, he vomited in the museum galleries.
Mat Gleason: January '11 L.A. Art World Gossip Mat Gleason 2011
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Word is he drank so heavily just to do the glad-handing routine that a half-hour into the party, sick from drink, he vomited in the museum galleries.
Mat Gleason: January '11 L.A. Art World Gossip Mat Gleason 2011
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Mr. Obama, in general, does not go out of his way to play the glad-handing, ego-stroking presidential role.
Obama Gains Reputation As Distant In Washington The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Mr. Obama, in general, does not go out of his way to play the glad-handing, ego-stroking presidential role.
Obama Gains Reputation As Distant In Washington The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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But I did have to do a fair amount of glad-handing, which I find very draining.
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Look at the way we write about Joe Biden: the backslapping, glad-handing, gaffe-prone goofball.
The oversimplified coverage of 'tough-talking' Rahm Emanuel Howard Kurtz 2010
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