Deal
Handshake
Handshake noun - Grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract).
Deal and handshake are semantically related in pact topic. Sometimes you can use "Deal" instead a noun "Handshake", if it concerns topics such as informal agreement, nonformal agreement, agreement based on trust.
Nearby Words: handshaker, handshaking
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Both words in one sentence
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Handshake Refusal: Tommy Bang Bang puts out his hand to seal a deal with the Joker and the Joker looks like he's responding, but instead he grabs some scampi.
Source: Comic Book / Joker -
The Scandinavians don't see what the big deal is until Turkey compares it to one person attempting a handshake and the other a fist-bump, at which they're suitably horrified.
Source: Greeting Gesture Confusion -
Deal with the Devil: Poppy "sold her soul to the man with a handshake" (lyrics from "American Kids") at age fifteen.
Source: Music / That Poppy
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