handshaken.
/ˈhan(d)ʃeɪk/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌʃeɪk/ 1. An act of shaking a person's hand with one's own, in greeting or farewell, or as a sign of assent, good will, etc. Cf. handshaking n.Distinctive forms of handshake are also sometimes used to indicate membership of a particular organization, etc.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > greeting or salutation > gesture > handshake
handygriping1577
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handshaking1647
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hand-griping1700
shake1712
shake-hands1800
handshake1802
handgrip1837
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1802 Monthly Mag. Jan. 589/1 Ministers may easily be found, who would intercept the agreed handshake of reconciliation, and once more clench the fist of denial.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xli. 370 Pitt..saluted Rebecca with a handshake and a very low bow.
1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 130 Let me return your handshake!
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 136 She heard it..and, suddenly, with a curt handshake, took her departure.
1921 Freeman 19 Oct. 125/1 The signs, passwords, handshakes, titles, costumes and mummery of the Klan.
1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes vi. 262 Ordering me to rise and seal the partnership with a solemn handshake.
1984 J. Kelman Busconductor Hines i. 40 Aye I know ya crawling cunt ye—a couple of Masonic handshakes and all that.
2011 Guardian (Nexis) 21 July 23 The Afghans thanked them with numerous speeches, handshakes all round and bunches of flowers.
2. A gift of money, esp. one given by a person's employer on retirement or redundancy.Earliest in silver handshake n. at silver n. and adj. Compounds 2a. golden handshake: see the first element.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift of money
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gratuity1540
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handshake1958
1958 M. Pugh Wilderness of Monkeys 84 Flash Willy is just about to go back to London, [and] pick up his silver handshake, his sacking money.
1968 Times 3 July 26/6 (headline) Dockers told of handshake.
1985 L. Kibera in C. Achebe & C. L. Innes Afr. Short Stories (1987) 62 Mrs Knight gave him a five-pound handshake saying Meet you in England.
2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Jan. 2 [His] $210 million handshake underscored the reality of agitation for change.
3. Computing. An exchange of standardized signals between communicating devices in a network or bus, used to regulate the transfer of data between them, typically to control the start or end of a transmission; a signal used for this purpose.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > transfer or manipulation > restraint or regulation
lockout1961
handshaking1963
handshake1966
1966 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 29 398/2 A sufficient time is allowed for completion of a ‘handshake’ between Data Sets (about 10 seconds).
1983 MicroComputer Printout Sept. 72/1 The end of a transaction is always signified by an electronic signal called a handshake.
1994 Amer. Spectator June 61/2 (advt.) Hit your enter key once or twice to initiate a handshake between your computer and The American Spectator-Online.
2011 Gizmodo (Nexis) 12 Dec. No more router as middleman, but a straight handshake between iPhone and speaker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
handshakev.
/ˈhan(d)ʃeɪk/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌʃeɪk/ 1. intransitive. To shake hands (with a person).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > greet > shake hands
handshake1878
to shake1891
to press (the) flesh1918
1878 Sunday at Home 23 June 400/1 Men were handshaking with each other, and laughing into one another's eyes.
1898 H. James Two Magics 8 We handshook..and went to bed.
1914 W. E. Sackett Mod. Battles Trenton II. ii. 22 He..swapped stories with their clerks, handshook with the stranger,—and they all voted him a mighty good fellow.
1986 T. Barling Smoke xxiv. 527 We could handshake, Chas. Do each other some good.
2000 A. L. Kennedy Everything you Need 112 Nathan squeezed and held and handshook back.
2. transitive. To shake hands with (a person or group). to handshake one's way: to make one's way while shaking hands with various people along the route.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > greet or salute > shake hands with or a person's hand
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to shake (a person's) hand1540
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1920 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 17 Apr. 3/4 He came to town..to handshake the New York Yankees.
1924 Kokomo (Indiana) Daily Tribune 5 Aug. 12/3 President Coolidge received and handshook Firpo at the White House.
1963 Billboard 23 Mar. 12/3 (caption) Dunes Hotel president M. A. Riddle is on hand to handshake ‘Love is a Ball’ stars Hope Lange and Glenn Ford.
1987 Independent 5 Jan. 11/4 Chancellor Kohl handshakes his way in to the hall in Dortmund.
2007 C. Sherborne Muck 81 The Duke and I have finished handshaking the Jims and Christine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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