handshaker
noun
Definition of handshaker
1 : one that makes capital of shaking hands or showing extreme politic friendliness money raisers, speechmakers, handshakers, and official greeters — H. S. Commager
2 : one that is usually naïvely fond of meeting people a natural handshaker in the good sense of that abused word — S. H. Adams
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