glad hand

1. 1.

   a warm welcome; may be insincere

   Broaderwelcome

Questions about glad hand

What does glad hand mean?

glad hand means "a warm welcome; may be insincere".

Is glad hand a common word?

glad hand is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.