Word.ws English Dictionary

bear hugs

bear hugs is the plural of bear hug.

Meaning of bear hug

Noun

bear hug (plural bear hugs)

  1. Any especially large, tight or enthusiastic hug, usually friendly and especially given by a male.
    • Granddad scooped up the child in a big bear hug.
  2. A hostile takeover effort in which one firm offers to buy the other firm at a share price too high to refuse.
  3. A hold with the arms around the opponent.

Questions about bear hugs

What is bear hugs the plural of?
Bear hugs is the plural of bear hug.

Words near bear hugs in the dictionary

  1. bear gardens
  2. bear garlic
  3. bear hang
  4. bear hangs
  5. bear hug
  6. bear hugs
  7. bear in
  8. bear in mind
  9. bear in on
  10. bear in the air
  11. bear in with

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bear hugs (page history and authors); bear hug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bear hugs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bear_hugs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.