Synonyms for shake hands
shake hands

Princeton's WordNet

1. shake handsverb

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

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1. • Greet

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1. Nine Network:

   She actually made a joke coming into the studio saying' we shouldn't shake hands we should bump elbows.' So we bumped elbows.

2. Emily Post:

   Our advice to them is to get comfortable with letting people know, because I think the rude thing to do would be to stand there and act like you are ignoring an outstretched hand, if the outstretched hand comes to you and you do not want to shake hands, you want to acknowledge that by saying, 'I actually don't shake hands' or 'I am sorry that I don't shake hands, but I am so pleased to meet you.'.

3. Bill Clinton:

   It used to be — and I was talking to President Obama about this the other day — it used to be that you would do an event like this and then you would shake hands with people and they would talk to you, they would say, 'I liked what you said about this' or 'You didn't mention that' or 'Can I tell you this?' And it was a constant learning and absorbing experience.

4. Tom Izzo:

   Not shaking hands, that's typical of our country right now, instead of solving the problem, let's make an excuse and let's see if we can just instead of, confronting and demanding that it changes, let's eliminate it so that we don't have those problems. Let's try to do that. That's perfect us right now, that's not perfect me. That's not happening here. So if some team doesn't want to shake hands, you're gonna see 15 of my guys walk down and shake air. We're going to shake air and I'm gonna to shake air and then we're gonna leave.

5. 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.