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Handshake

A handshake is when two people hold hands for a few seconds and move them up and down before letting go. It is often used like a greeting (like saying "hello" or "goodbye" when people meet) or to say that two people have agreed on something.

Some secret societies have secret handshakes to show they are part of the group.

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  • Shalmaneser III greets Marduk-zakir-shumi, detail, front panel, Throne Dais of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum

    Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (right) shakes the hand of Babylonian king Marduk-zakir-shumi I (left), 9th century BCE

  • Nerva Aureus Concordia

    Handshake depicted on a Roman coin, with the name of the goddess Concordia (AD 97)

  • Mr. M K Mishra, IOFS

    Officers shaking hands

  • Handshake

    Shaking with the right hand while delivering a certificate with the left

  • Tennis shake hands after match

    Tennis players shaking hands after match

  • AlvaroGordoaTec04

    Public image consultant Álvaro Gordoa demonstrates a handshaking technique at a presentation at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City

  • Leaders welcoming boy into Mexico Scouting

    Leaders welcome a boy into Scouting, March 2010, Mexico City, Mexico. Note the left-handed handshake.

  • Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat at the White House 1993-09-13

    Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on 13 September 1993

  • Guiness World Record- Handshaking

    World Record 2008

  • Αθήνα - Διεθνής Αερολιμένας 0399

    Hoplite greeting an older man with slave carrying the aspis

  • Funerary stele of Thrasea and Euandria Antikensammlung Berlin 01

    Funerary stele of Thrasea and Euandria. Marble, ca. 375–350 BC. Antikensammlung Berlin, Pergamon Museum, 738

  • OTArsameiaSockelIIIDexiosis

    Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, shaking hands with Heracles 70–38 BC, Arsameia.

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