Crossword clues for handshake
handshake
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement. 2 (context computing English) An exchange of signals between two devices when communications begin in order to ensure synchronization.
WordNet
n. grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) [syn: shake, handshaking, handclasp]
Wikipedia
A handshake is a short ritual 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.
Using the right hand is generally considered proper etiquette. 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. Handshakes are known to spread germs. __TOC__
Usage examples of "handshake".
The New Amazonian habit of indiscriminate handshaking proved itself useful for once.
He turned back and offered his hand to Robert for yet another of the endless New Amazonian handshakes.
He went through a demobilization centre where he was given a cheap suit, a small amount of back pay and a handshake from a sombre unrecruiting sergeant.
He could feel his finger bones and metacarpals grinding together under a handshake that he realized too late was composed not of ordinary flesh and bone but of some powerful hydraulic mechanism sheathed in a realistic-looking fleshlike covering.
The man struck him as a bit of a fussbudget, with his clipboard in one hand and pencil shifted awkwardly back and forth between handshakes.
Brynn accepted his handshake, but looked past him to Wadon, who was smiling, surely, but in a manner that seemed somehow strained to her.
Donnie Marengo was practically a recruiting poster for the new Navy, intelligence in his eyes, sincerity in his handshake.
Jim Bowie, free now that the fight was over and anxious to be on his way, offered to act as their guide to Natchitoches and was accepted with a bow and a handshake.
Neither do I speak to turtles or greet friends with a nontraditional handshake.
He wakes up every morning to face a split-second, 18-hour-a-day schedule of meetings, airports, speeches, press conferences, motorcades and handshaking.
Sarre, and she began a round of handshaking and trivial conversation, interrupted at last by Sarre declaring that if they were to reach home that evening, they would have to leave, so Alethea went round shaking hands once more and only as they reached the door saw that he had a basket with a lid in one hand.
Amsel reaches his hand with its many freckles up the dike, Walter Matern reaches his hand with the pressure marks left by the pocketknife down the dike and with the handshake pulls Amsel up on the dike top.
Hanrassy, the bending over the table, the walking around the holograms, the snap decision and then the thoughtful review of the decision, the frowning, the looking closer, and then, for good and all, the nod of confirmation, the farewell handshake with Hanrassy, the departure from the room, and Hanrassy reaching for her telephone.
She flew downstairs, and flitted swiftly into the room, and fluttered up to Beaton, and gave him a crushing handshake.
As the meeting broke up, Celia left first, amid smiles and friendly handshakes.