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shake hands

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shake handsverb

    take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation

Wiktionary

  1. shake handsverb

    To grasp another person's hands in a greeting.

ChatGPT

  1. shake hands

    Shake hands is a gesture or action where two people grasp each other's right hands and move them up and down, often as a form of greeting, agreement, congratulation, or farewell. It is a social custom prevalent in many cultures worldwide.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shake hands in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shake hands in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of shake hands in a Sentence

  1. American Brigadier General Thomas Stafford:

    We estimate over a billion to a billion and a half people around the world saw me shake hands with Alexey and said look if people like this can work together we can work together on a lot of things.

  2. Max Baucus:

    I think it will basically be a meet and greet and grin and shake hands, and each leader can congratulate themselves. But that's not all bad, it's good that the two will meet, and my hope is that would set the stage for more realistic, more direct, specific conversations later on.

  3. National Security Advisor John Bolton:

    Lopez Obrador is not stupid, so he will try to get along with Mr. Trump, i think Mr. Trump knows that Mexico is better as a friend than hostile, but I don’t think Mr. Lopez Obrador will shake hands with Trump. I think he will never be together in the same picture.

  4. John Feal:

    We came in here praying for the best, prepared for the worst. We were ready to shake hands or we were ready to get into a street fight, today was a good meeting.

  5. Matthew Belloni:

    You have to spend money, you have to shake hands. You have to have a message for your movie.


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