Definition of "glad-handing" []

• Present participle of glad-hand. (verb)
• Action of the verb to glad-hand (noun)

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• "Mr. Obama, in general, does not go out of his way to play the glad-handing, ego-stroking presidential role."
• "But I did have to do a fair amount of glad-handing, which I find very draining."
• "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."