glad-handing
Speech parts
1. glad-handing - Noun
2. glad-handing - Verb
Meaning
glad-handing
present participle of glad-hand
glad-handing (plural glad-handings)
The act of one who glad-hands.
Examples
My own reporting affirms that he’s generally well liked by most Democrats and, as the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, is adept at the kind of glad-handing that someone in his position needs to do to secure promises of future votes.
When Carolyn was working on “Consulted To Death” we talked about how much we hated the second-guessing, glad-handing, anything-to-keep-the-client-on-the-line consultants we’d both dealt with in our broadcasting careers.
Only instead of Irving, Ainge was glad-handing Terry Rozier; instead of Hayward, it was Marcus Smart.
The text of the annual G7 joint communique is usually all but final before the leaders meet for two days of glad-handing and group photo opportunities, but this year officials were negotiating even as Trump headed for his plane.
The morning after the election, Trudeau was glad-handing unsuspecting commuters in his native Montreal, waltzing through the Jarry metro station, ahead of his security detail, who were known for clinging closely to Harper.
Whether a polymer is natural or synthetic, chances are its backbone is composed of carbon, a strong, stable, glad-handing atom that is ideally suited to forming molecular bonds.