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- noun Plural form of
glad-hander .
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Examples
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Have we made so little progress since the time when cigar-chomping glad-handers roamed the Earth?
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Have we made so little progress since the time when cigar-chomping glad-handers roamed the Earth?
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Here an already strained metaphor, collapses, for truly who is cast as Augustus among the tinpots, frauds, boosters and tedious glad-handers that comprise the current GOP presidential roster?
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The back-slappers and glad-handers that have the web of conflicts of interest that caused this thing to get as far as it has can't stand him, which actually leaves him freer to oppose them.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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The place was crawling with handlers and glad-handers.
Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003
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The place was crawling with handlers and glad-handers.
Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003
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He's not in a field where there are a lot of glad-handers and camera hogs and showboats.
The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation 1990
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Anything but stand on the convention floor among the balloons, confetti, spin doctors and glad-handers.
Chicago Reader 2010
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CongressPro is a fully featured app geared to lobbyists and K Street denizens, special-interest glad-handers, Capitol Hill jobholders, sundry bureaucrats, and … well, hacks like me.
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I intend to raise an army of citizen journalists (not glad-handers) to help me in this endeavour.
Thunder Pig 2009
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