Usually means: Tight, affectionate, full-body embrace.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word bear hug:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. bear-hug, bear hug: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bear hug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bear hug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bear hug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bear hug: Vocabulary.com
  6. bear-hug: Wordnik
  7. bear hug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bear hug: Wiktionary
  9. bear hug: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. bear-hug, bear hug: Dictionary.com
  11. Bear Hug, Bear hug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. bear hug: Rhymezone
  13. bear hug: Free Dictionary
  14. bear hug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. bear hug: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Bear Hug: bizterms.net
  4. Bear hug: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. bear hug: Finance-Glossary.com
  6. Bear Hug: Investopedia
  7. Bear-hug, bear hug: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bear-hug, bear hug: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bear hug: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bear_hugs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bear hug)

noun:  Any especially large, tight or enthusiastic hug, usually friendly and especially given by a male.
noun:  (business) A hostile takeover effort in which one firm offers to buy the other firm at a share price too high to refuse.
noun:  (wrestling) A hold with the arms around the opponent.

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