bear hug

bear hug

See also: bearhug

English

Noun

bear hug (plural bear hugs)

1. Any especially large, tight or enthusiastic hug, usually friendly and especially given by a male.

   Granddad scooped up the child in a big bear hug.

   • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:

     Challenger kissed us all in her emotion, before she finally threw herself into the bear-hug of her husband.

2. (business) A hostile takeover effort in which one firm offers to buy the other firm at a share price too high to refuse.
3. (wrestling) A hold with the arms around the opponent.

Translations

any especially large hug, usually friendly

Chinese: Mandarin: 熊抱 (xióngbào) Danish: bamseknus Finnish: karhunsyleily, karhunhali Portuguese: abraço de urso m Spanish: abrazote (es) m, abrazazo m, abrazo de oso m Swedish: björnkram c, bamsekram c

Anagrams

• Baugher