What does bear-hug mean?

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bear-hug

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

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bear-hugs (plural) bear-hugs (present, singular) bear-hugging (participle, present) bear-hugged (participle, past) bear-hugged (past)

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