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bear hug en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any especially large, tight or enthusiastic hug, usually friendly and especially given by a male.
   • Challenger kissed us all in her emotion, before she finally threw herself into the bear-hug of her husband. 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
   • Granddad scooped up the child in a big bear hug.
2. A hostile takeover effort in which one firm offers to buy the other firm at a share price too high to refuse.
3. A hold with the arms around the opponent.

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Relateds

body lock

Translations (13)

es abrazo úrsido (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · sv bamsekram (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · fi karhunsyleily (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · sv björnkram (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · es abrazo de oso (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · pt abraço de urso (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · es abrazazo (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · pt chi-coração (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · da bamseknus (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · fi karhunhali (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · cmn 熊抱 (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · es abrazote (any especially large hug, usually friendly) · pt chi (any especially large hug, usually friendly)