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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gladhand .
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Examples
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Think back peeps to that day in 97, all those adoring folk, being gladhanded by the great one, the "things can only get better" sounding out over the beeb.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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El Presidente walked to the head of the line and, bent at the waist, gladhanded his way along it, tussling heads while the cameramen got their shots.
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Obama then gladhanded the VIP's on stage and deftly exited as the Biden clan grew multiplied on stage.
Jack Hidary: Live from the Pepsi Center -- Obama O-Mama! 2008
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Celebrity bartenders like Charlotte Voisey and James Moreland gladhanded the crowd and accepted the adulation of the bartenders in the know.
Nashville Scene 2010
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Turning, he saw Cohen being gladhanded by Tom Breneman and the maitre d’, out of eyeshot.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
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