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glad hand
noun- a welcome, rousing if not always sincere US, 1873
- They sure gave me the glad-hand when they laid their peepers on my new car. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 88, 1946
- on the railways, the metal air hose coupling between carriages US
The interlocking connectors vaguely resemble hands clasped in a handshake. - “Glad Hands” are used on all the trains / So air won’t suffer parting pains. — J. Herbert Lund, Herb’s Hot Box of Railraod Slang, p. 104, 1975
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