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What (who) is handshake - definition
SHORT HUMAN GREETING OR PARTING RITUAL
Shake the hand; Hand shaking; Shaking hands; Hand shake; Business high five; Handshakes; 🤝; Hand-shake; Hand-shaking; Handshaking
![[[Hera]] and [[Athena]] handshaking, late 5th century BC, [[Acropolis Museum]], Athens](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ACMA 1333 Samian decree 2.JPG?width=200 "[[Hera]] and [[Athena]] handshaking, late 5th century BC, [[Acropolis Museum]], Athens")
![Public image consultant Álvaro Gordoa demonstrates a handshaking technique at a presentation at [[Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AlvaroGordoaTec04.jpg?width=200 "Public image consultant Álvaro Gordoa demonstrates a handshaking technique at a presentation at [[Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City]]")
![Israeli Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]], U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]], and [[Yasser Arafat]] at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on 13 September 1993](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat at the White House 1993-09-13.jpg?width=200 "Israeli Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]], U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]], and [[Yasser Arafat]] at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on 13 September 1993")
![Leaders welcome a boy into [[Scouting]], March 2010, Mexico City, Mexico. Note the left-handed handshake.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leaders welcoming boy into Mexico Scouting.jpg?width=200 "Leaders welcome a boy into [[Scouting]], March 2010, Mexico City, Mexico. Note the left-handed handshake.")
![Concordia]] (AD 97)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nerva Aureus Concordia.png?width=200 "Concordia]] (AD 97)")
![Assyrian king [[Shalmaneser III]] (right) shakes the hand of Babylonian king [[Marduk-zakir-shumi I]] (left), 9th century BCE](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shalmaneser III greets Marduk-zakir-shumi, detail, front panel, Throne Dais of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum.jpg?width=200 "Assyrian king [[Shalmaneser III]] (right) shakes the hand of Babylonian king [[Marduk-zakir-shumi I]] (left), 9th century BCE")
![[[Hoplite]] greeting an older man with slave carrying the [[aspis]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Αθήνα - Διεθνής Αερολιμένας 0399.jpg?width=200 "[[Hoplite]] greeting an older man with slave carrying the [[aspis]]")
![Funerary stele of Thrasea and Euandria. Marble, ca. 375–350 BC. [[Antikensammlung Berlin]], [[Pergamon Museum]], 738](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Funerary stele of Thrasea and Euandria Antikensammlung Berlin 01.jpg?width=200 "Funerary stele of Thrasea and Euandria. Marble, ca. 375–350 BC. [[Antikensammlung Berlin]], [[Pergamon Museum]], 738")
![[[Antiochus I Theos of Commagene]], shaking hands with [[Heracles]] 70–38 BC, [[Arsameia]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/OTArsameiaSockelIIIDexiosis.jpg?width=200 "[[Antiochus I Theos of Commagene]], shaking hands with [[Heracles]] 70–38 BC, [[Arsameia]].")
![British and American troops shake hands on the Anzio Road during [[World War II]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/British and American Troops meet on the Anzio Road.jpg?width=200 "British and American troops shake hands on the Anzio Road during [[World War II]].")
handshake
n.
1) a firm; warm handshake
2) (misc.) a golden handshake ('a gift presented to smb. who is retiring')
handshake
handshake
¦ noun an act of shaking a person's hand.
Derivatives
handshaking noun
Wikipedia
Handshake
A handshake is a globally widespread, brief greeting or parting tradition in which two people grasp one of each other's like hands, in most cases accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands. Customs surrounding handshakes are specific to cultures. Different cultures may be more or less likely to shake hands, or there may be different customs about how or when to shake hands.
Examples of use of handshake
1. But the senator recognizes that he cannot count on voters delivering for him again and plans a relentless handshake–by–handshake retail pitch.
2. She‘s tall, slender, elegantly dressed and has a firm handshake.
3. And until the bloodshed in the region continues, there is no reason for Libya to go towards normalization with Israel." As for the handshake, Hafiana said, "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, nothing more then that.
4. He has an easy smile and firm, confident handshake.
5. Most students were content with a handshake or a hug.