glad-hand

Definitions

1. 1

   To be overly friendly with (a stranger) in order to gain an advantage.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To extend a glad hand (to someone)

   To extend a glad hand (to someone); to welcome warmly.

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