Shake hands

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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. 2
    take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation wordnet
  3. 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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