strike hands

verb

shake hands

Meanings

verbstrike hands (third-person singular simple present strikes hands, present participle striking hands, simple past struck hands, past participle struck hands or (rare or archaic) stricken hands)

present singular third person strikes hands · participle present striking hands · past struck hands · participle past struck hands · archaic participle past rare stricken hands

  1. datedshake hands

    We struck hands upon that, and said it was settled.

    1909, Mark Twain, The Death of Jean
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