Meaning

2 senses

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

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

Forms

glad-hands, glad-handing, glad-handed, glad-handed
Base formglad-hand · to glad-hand
3rd person singularglad-hands
Present participleglad-handing
Past simpleglad-handed
Past participleglad-handed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyglad-hand
he, she, itglad-hands

Past simpleLesson

all personsglad-handed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave glad-handed
he, she, ithas glad-handed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill glad-hand

Word family

1 related words
Derivedglad-hander

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
glaciergladA1gladdengladiatorgladly
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