Sekirov Dictionary

shake hands

verb 2
noun 1
forms 4

verb2

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To grasp another person's hands as an expression of greeting, farewell, agreement, etc.
- If political calculation so required, he could pelt a man with mud one day and shake hands with him the next. — 1978
•
(figurative) To part, to say farewell.
- ⁠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. — 1850

noun1

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(Ireland) an instance of shaking hands; a handshake
- Many a shake hands did I get from the neighbours’ sons, wishing me joy — 1834

forms

shook hands · shaken hands · shaking hands · shakes hands

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