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▪ I. bear-hug, n.
Brit. |ˈbɛːhʌg|, U.S. |ˈbɛ(ə)rˌ(h)əg|
[‹ bear n.1 + hug n.]
1.
a. A tight, powerful, enveloping embrace, either as a hearty expression of affection or greeting or as a means of restraint (see also sense 1b). Also fig.
1846Amer. Rev. Jan. 21/2 His iron fingers tore away the frantic grasp of the madman from his throat—then closing with him he clasped him in the bear-hug of those long heavy arms. 1910J. London Burning Daylight (1913) i. iii. 29 Bettles paused long enough to put his arm in a proper bear-hug around Daylight's neck. 1959R. Bradbury Day it rained Forever (1963) 170 She ran and brought his coat and kissed his cheek and drew back quickly before he could enclose her in his bear hug. 1972N. Madgett in A. Chapman New Black Voices 297 Wrap my soul in the bearhug of reassurance. 1991Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune 15 May a3 (caption) Shea and fellow firefighter Patrick Barr held the stranded workers in bear hugs while they were lowered to windows on the floor below the burning 12th floor.
b. Wrestling. A hold in which a wrestler joins his or her arms around an opponent, and forces the opponent, thus immobilized, to fall backwards.
[1904N.Y. Times 3 Dec. 10/5 Egeberg gripped him from behind.., catching a secure reverse body hold and keeping Plening in his bear's hug.] 1930N.Y. Times 6 May 36/4 The German tossed the Philedelphian down with a bar-hammer grip and later secured a bear-hug which lasted for three minutes. 1972B. Douglas Wrestling 68 Jason Smith, Iowa State, finishes a bear hug with a half-nelson. 1993WWF Mag. Apr. 27/1 Razor then tried to wear down Bret with an abdominal stretch and, later, a bearhug.
2. U.S. Business. An attractive or irresistible takeover bid, typically an unsolicited or hostile bid set well above market value.
1977Business Week 16 May 160/1 Most takeover attempts in the past year have started as Bear Hugs. 1980M. Moskowitz et al. Everybody's Business 835 A week later came the ‘bear hug’: another letter with an informal offer of $21 a share for the entire company, $4 a share more than the stock was selling for on Wall Street. 1998Denver Post (Nexis) 27 Aug. c1 Quark's bear-hug offer to buy all or most of Adobe..succeeded Wednesday.
▪ II. bear-hug, v.
Brit. |ˈbɛːhʌg|, U.S. |ˈbɛ(ə)rˌ(h)əg|
[‹ bear n.1 + hug v., after bear-hug n.]
trans. To give (a person) a bear-hug, esp. an affectionate one. Also intr.: to engage in a bear-hug.
1944N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 4 June 29/3 Miss Landis was telling a story about him, not knowing he was in the audience. He jumped to his feet, cried out, ‘I'm Landis!’ and dashed to the platform where he bear-hugged his cousin. 1961J. P. Lash Dag Hammarskjold xix. 266 Then there was Fidel Castro, stomping angrily out of one hotel allegedly for discriminatory treatment.., bear-hugging with Khrushchev, declaiming for 4½ hours. 1979C. Reid Arcadia 27 Later, he went swanning off to Biarritz.., bear-hugged a girl in a garden and dissipated his entire fortune on prostitutes. 1986Sunday Tel. 4 May 9/2 The pair were shown bear-hugging on Japanese TV. 2000H. Simpson Hey Yeah Right (2001) 151 Possibly she was proactive in her rapprochement with her husband, chucking him under the chin, bearhugging him, exchanging sportive punches.
Derivatives. bear-hugging n.
1969N.Y. Times 3 July 2/4 Col. Frank Borman, the first American astronaut to visit the Soviet Union, was greeted amicably by three Soviet astronauts but without the traditional *bear-hugging and cheek-kissing. 2002Courier Mail (Nexis) 6 May 6 The release of emotion at fulltime with the bear-hugging, air-punching and mini lap of honour showed yet again that these interstate derbys have a life and history that goes back much further. |