(or, speaking of verbing nouns)

bear-hug - [v] trans. To give (a person) a bear-hug, esp. an affectionate one. Also intr.: to engage in a bear-hug.
1944 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 4 June 29/3 Miss Landis was telling a story about him, not knowing he was in the audience. He jumped to his feet, cried out, ‘I'm Landis!’ and dashed to the platform where he bear-hugged his cousin. 1961 J. P. LASH Dag Hammarskjold xix. 266 Then there was Fidel Castro, stomping angrily out of one hotel allegedly for discriminatory treatment.., bear-hugging with Khrushchev, declaiming for 4.5 hours. 2000 H. SIMPSON Hey yeah right get a Life (2001) 151 Possibly she was proactive in her rapprochement with her husband, chucking him under the chin, bearhugging him, exchanging sportive punches.
{draft entry Sept. 2003}

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NB: I was going to add this to the previous thread of the same appellation, but that seems to have gone wide.