handshake v.
(US) to curry favour.
Doughboy Dope 9: Czyerznski only ducked a spell in the jug by handshaking with the top-kick due to going AWOL. | ||
AS VII:5 333: handshake—v.—to curry favor. | ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in||
See Here, Private Hargrove 56: ‘Now this Corporal Gantt, when he first came in, was one of the greenest rookies in the bunch. But he snapped out of it and made corporal in four months.’ ‘Was that soldiering...or handshaking—as the Latins used to say, mittus floppus?’ [HDAS]. | ||
(con. 1940s) | Marauders (1960) 277: Tom’s radio operator, ‘was a real handshaking son-of-a-bitch! I’ll bet he made corporal the day they drafted him!’.||
(con. 1940s) Wax Boom 73: I ain’t hand-shaking nobody. |