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, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     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, chi (pt) m (Portugal), chi-coração (pt) m (Portugal)
• Spanish: abrazote (es) m, abrazazo m, abrazo de oso m
• Swedish: björnkram c, bamsekram c

Anagrams

• Baugher