overhug
verbEtymology From over- + hug.
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Ambitransitive To hug excessively or too much.
- There’ll be little campaigning on the hustings this season. For a politician who cherishes the connect, social distancing could be politically fatal; but for Biden, it could be a gift. He’ll have fewer chances to get carried away as he speaks, to overhug, to stick his foot in it (and he’s done quite a bit of that already).2020 August 15, Jeniffer Senior, “Learning to Love Joe Biden”, in The New York Times: