hand shaker

plural hand shakers

1. alternativeAlternative form of handshaker.

   Ray was a hand shaker in world full of quick-to-kiss men.

   2009, David Henry Sterry; R. J. Martin, Jr., Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, →ISBN

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   I must get it from my dad. Can't be from Mom, the world-class go-getter, hand shaker, and baby kisser.”

   2008, Ellen Hopkins, Identical, →ISBN, page 31

   An Alumnus gave me my first job sellin' cars supposedly but I was just a showpiece, a hand shaker.

   2008, Don Bill, Powers Trace, →ISBN, page 38

   Otherwise, it communicates the casual hand shaker's seniority and superiority over the other in terms of status and power.

   2015, Rebecca Y. Kim, The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America, →ISBN, page 1

2. A shaker that is operated by hand.

   A large hand shaker the size of a 1 gallon rectangular can, capacity about 5 pounds (fig. 126), has been satisfactory and durable.

   1949, United States. Public Health Service, Rat-borne Disease Prevention and Control, page 270

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   The supplement was in the form of a sachet containing a chocolate flavored ready to mix drink and each subject was provided a hand shaker for mixing the drink.

   2008, Loren Ward, Whey Protein, →ISBN, page 47

   I can then take what I need out of my mobile cooker and put the amounts into my hand shaker and add some ice cubes and then shake my hand shaker very well.

   2013, Juliana Baldec, Juicer Recipes Fruit & Vegetable Juicer & Smoothie Blender Recipes, →ISBN