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bear hug
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a bear hug
an action in which you put your arms tightly around someone and hold them close to you in order to show them affection. Her cousin gave her an affectionate bear hug which almost took her breath away.
See also: bear


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He hobnobbed with Jack Valenti and gave bear hugs to Melissa Etheridge and director Davis Guggenheim, who both picked up Oscars for "An Inconvenient Truth.
Sitting face-to-face, they traded shots, bear hugs, friendly threats and a series of "Shake my hand" grip challenges before Van finally jettisoned out to the parking lot to wrestle all comers.
They called themselves the "two amigos," exchanged muscular bear hugs, and trumpeted a new era in bilateral affairs.
 
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