shaking hands

Verb

shake hands (third-person singular simple present shakes hands, present participle shaking hands, simple past shook hands, past participle shaken hands)

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.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
2. (figuratively) 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, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 61

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