Handshaker

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who gives a handshake.

    "A potentially great statesman is not likely to be by natural inclination an enthusiastic, grinning, and indefatigable handshaker, babykisser and small-talkie walkie; yet, no one who is not an enthusiastic, grinning, and indefatigable handshaker, babykisser and small-talkie walkie can become a great statesman, if it is up to the man in the street, the man on the road, the man on the dirt road, and the man in the blind alley — the electorate, in short."

  2. 2
    A deceitful person, a swindler. US, slang

Etymology

From hand + shaker.

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