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Shake hands
noun, verb
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Noun
- 1 an instance of shaking hands; a handshake Ireland, no-plural
"Many a shake hands did I get from the neighbours’ sons, wishing me joy"
Verb
- 1 To grasp another person's hands as an expression of greeting, farewell, agreement, etc.
"Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors' room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal."
- 2 take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation wordnet
- 3 To part, to say farewell. figuratively
"But thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low; My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiscover’d lands."
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