'handshake' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to a physical gesture of greeting, in which two people grasp each other's hands. For example, "He smiled as they shared a firm handshake."
He was rewarded with a firm handshake from the official, who had previously awarded the goal but now disallowed it.
Quotations from his books slipped into our daily speech whenever we wanted to appear clever: "Those were days when men were men"; "When a handshake goes beyond the elbow, then it has become something else".
One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.
"It was like a letter from home or the firm handshake of someone you admire and trust".
The 1993 handshake between Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, was a rare moment of hope in the bitter Middle East conflict.
I found myself telling friends later how remarkable his handshake was - and it is interesting how no writer has ever mentioned that about him.
He told the NAO and two parliamentary committees that the bank's settlement had been agreed with a handshake by Hartnett, the permanent secretary for tax at HMRC.
He's captured a handshake between two of Kevin Rudd's great supporters, lobbyist and strategist Bruce Hawker and Senator Doug Cameron.
It is time for the spooky parting handshake.
Monday's historic but stilted handshake between China's president, Xi Jinping, and the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, in Beijing could mark the beginning of a thawing in relations between the two countries.
As ill-judged handshake go, there's no beating Nevill Chamberlain's greeting of Adolf Hitler in September 1938 in Germany.
