People hugged strangers and friends, slapped backs and hands and made plans for victory parties as news of the victory spread up and down 125th Street.

Whereas I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

He is burly and gregarious, famous for hugging strangers.

They hugged friends, relatives, and strangers alike.

People waved flags, honked car horns, and hugged strangers.

"Hugging strangers is, like, weird."

Strangers were hugging strangers.

For hours after Monday's 3-2 Giants victory, horns honked throughout the city, tickertape dusted the Financial District and strangers hugged strangers in bars and on street corners.

Hope I spent election night on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, Calif., watching people high-fiving and hugging strangers in the street.

I kissed hundreds of cheeks, hugged total strangers, thanked them for their gifts.