“ə(r) noun
1. : one given to glad-handing : one ready to extend a glad hand
the home-loving, comfort-loving, rotund glad-hander — Christopher Rand
this big, friendly fellow — a glad-hander who really seemed to mean it — R.M.Yoder
2. : one who is appointed to meet or greet others and win their goodwill
a shy glad-hander, a public-relations man with a highly developed sense of privacy — Dwight Macdonald