Usually means: Greeting ritual involving hand clasping.
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  1. shake-hands: Merriam-Webster
  2. shake hands: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shake hands: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shake hands: Vocabulary.com
  5. shake hands: Wiktionary
  6. shake hands: Dictionary.com
  7. shake hands: Rhymezone
  8. shake hands: FreeDictionary.org
  9. shake hands: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. shake hands: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (shake hands)

verb:  To grasp another person's hands as an expression of greeting, farewell, agreement, etc.
verb:  (figuratively) To part, to say farewell.
noun:  (Ireland) an instance of shaking hands; a handshake

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