Handshaker


[hand-shey-ker] /ˈhændˌʃeɪ kər/

noun
1.
a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly:
Politicians are often incurable handshakers.

noun

A person who characteristically gets on by being amiable, making friends, pleasing superiors, etc; glad-hander (1900+)

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