hail-fellow-well-met

British  

adjective

1. genial and familiar, esp in an offensive or ingratiating way

   a hail-fellow-well-met slap on the back

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hail-fellow-well-met Cultural  

1. A term describing a person who is superficially friendly and is always trying to gain friends. Such a person may also be referred to as a “glad-hander.”

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Example Sentences

Regardless of that, between this and the extended hail-fellow-well-met tight-twos by his buds, the lead-up took on the feeling of a wake or a “get well” rally for someone who recently emerged from a coma.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023

What made things even tougher for Strong is that he is not a hail-fellow-well-met the way Brown was throughout his coaching career.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2016

The current Majority Leader is a hail-fellow-well-met operator who is smart and well liked across the conference.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2015

Buddakan, an upstairs-downstairs place that conveys all the hail-fellow-well-met of an Italianate spec mansion, never made it to kooky, much less crazy.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2014

“Well!” said Mr. Trabb, in a hail-fellow-well-met kind of way.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens