SHAKE HANDS (shaken hands, shakes hands, shaking hands, shook hands)

Pronunciation (US):

• SHAKE HANDS (verb)
  The verb SHAKE HANDS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SHAKE HANDS used as a verb is very rare.

• SHAKE HANDS (verb)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "shake hands" is one way to...):

greet; recognise; recognize (express greetings upon meeting someone)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something PP