Verb (used without object) : The candidate spent weeks glad-handing around the state.    From Dictionary.com. 

Chillin 'on the beach, glad-handing in friendly NC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asked Whether Advisers Are Pushing Wright Story, Hillary Demurs] Reference

But Foggo's glad-handing has raised awkward questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investigation: The CIA's No. 3 Has a Friend in the Spotlight] Reference

It gives new meaning to the concept of glad-handing. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ads That Stay With You] Reference

This potential glad-handing makes Arabs nervous and annoyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabria Jawhar: How Obama Can Address the Middle East] Reference

Obama has been nothing but a glad-handing, do-nothing Senator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"] Reference

Now, any draft-dodging, lying, glad-handing Baby Boomer can do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Well, Bill] Reference

Expect to see some of them here, glad-handing some of the revelers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2002] Reference

KING: But he's not going to be glad-handing it, jumping up and down.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Recount Goes On, Rhetoric Goes Up as Election 2000 Heads to Court - November 18, 2000] Reference

Candidates have been glad-handing and chatting up voters for months.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2008] Reference

They gave him a job, but it was a make-work, glad-handing kind of job.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taint in the Blood]

This morning, single digit temperatures and double-fisted glad-handing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2008] Reference

The guys should be the hero of glad-handing no-account twits everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [pellinore] Reference

At LAX, most celebrities come and go without any fanfare or glad-handing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Star Treatment:] Reference

Gordon Brown is not a glad-handing, crowd-pleasing, feel good kind of guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 17, 2007] Reference

He is a shy man, not a glad-handing pol in the manner of others from the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [John McQuaid: The Temptation of William Jefferson] Reference

This kind of glad-handing, I suppose, is called balanced journalism these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Candaele: Ted Koppel: Still Embedded?] Reference

They hog the limelight, glad-handing with the likes of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock Star CEOs] Reference

Axelrod was a seer and a good listener, though not much for glad-handing and schmoozing.    From Wordnik.com.  [How He Did It] Reference

Whatever his eyes were, they weren't those of the glad-handing, wisecracking bon vivant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

The VP position is a dead-end sinecure filled with empty glad-handing and aimless travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Campaign Downplays Reports That She Said She'd Be "Open" To Being Veep] Reference

In some ways, Cheney's unwillingness to play the Washington glad-handing game is puzzling.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHENEY FAMILY VALUES] Reference

He did savor the moment, the glad-handing and back-slapping some of his troops and commanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2003] Reference

So perhaps we Americans should be happy for the backroom glad-handing the elite class engages in?.    From Wordnik.com.  [leo-nard bern-stein] Reference

Bush's protracted glad-handing and his tallying of the nation's needs sure felt like a State of the Union.    From Wordnik.com.  ['That's Our Dubya'] Reference

Hu Jintao and his entourage of globe-trotting oil officials have been loitering in Libya and glad-handing in Gabon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hungry For Power] Reference

Martin Scorsese was out there glad-handing all over Los Angeles, you know, making sure that everyone knew he wanted this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2003] Reference

It helps them to do well in glad-handing and putting themselves out there and doing what they need to do to be a politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 12, 2008] Reference

And John McCain reaches across the aisle to -- you name the most liberal person in Congress and he ` s, you know, glad-handing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2008] Reference

Spector began to venture out, showing up courtside at Laker games and glad-handing backstage at Springsteen, U2, and Stones concerts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legend with a Bullet] Reference

And you saw, actually, on the train yesterday, with the president-elect's speeches, as he was stopping, he wasn't glad-handing wildly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2009] Reference

There was Bill Clinton politician, smiling, glad-handing and hoping to rescue the plummeting poll numbers of his amateurish replacement.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Obama, Left Begs for Clinton, Gets Only Carter] Reference

State Attorney Harper Wells filled the screen, blustering and smiling, glad-handing the voters as he kicked off his bid for re-election.    From Wordnik.com.  [In His Own Defense]

He arrived in Baghdad with all the glad-handing style of a politician on the campaign trail and has been a diplomatic whirlwind ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diplomacy: Has the Dealmaker Lost His Touch?] Reference

But with all the glad-handing and his aversion to twisting arms, the democracy he wrought has brought paralysis in the minds of the voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Re Brown's Victory, Message to Obama: Making Nice Doesn't Work, Time to Play Hardball!] Reference