hug : Idioms & Phrases

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bear hug

  • noun a wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent
  • noun a takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest
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bunny hug

  • noun a syncopated ballroom dance formerly popular in the US
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ground-hugging

  • adjective satellite of plants that grow relatively low to the ground
    low-growing; flat-growing.
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hug drug

  • noun street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
    cristal; ecstasy; XTC; Adam; go; X; disco biscuit.
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hug-me-tight

  • noun a woman's fitted jacket
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To hug one's self

  • to congratulate one's self; to chuckle.
Webster 1913