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  1. bear hugnoun

    a wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent

  2. bear hugnoun

    a takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest

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  1. Ted Cruz:

    My approach, much to the frustration of media, is to bear hug both of them and smother them with love, i believe that gravity will bring both of those candidates down. I think the lion share of their supporters will come to us.

  2. Ronald Reagan:

    The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)


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