"elbow shake" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Modeled on handshake.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "expansion": "elbow shake (plural elbow shakes)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 August 10, Kimani Wanjeri, “Handshakes must be banned or minimised”, in Daily Nation:",
          "text": "Cholera spread can be reduced by modifying behaviour, especially handshakes. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 people stopped shaking hands and used the “Ebola elbow shake”.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 March 22, Terhrmba Daka, “India’s “namaste” salutation goes viral in Aso Rock”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Notwithstanding measures like the application of alcoholic cleanser (hand sanitizers), which has proved useful at every strategic entry point in the State House, staff members now resort to keeping a safe distance, rather than the hitherto warm handshake, and sometimes, generous hugs, to the now awkward ‘elbow shake’ as a way of exchange of pleasantries.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of elbow bump (“touching of elbows as alternative to a handshake”)"
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
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          "extra": "touching of elbows as alternative to a handshake",
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          "word": "elbow bump"
        }
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "elbow shake"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Modeled on handshake.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elbow shakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "elbow shake (plural elbow shakes)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2017 August 10, Kimani Wanjeri, “Handshakes must be banned or minimised”, in Daily Nation:",
          "text": "Cholera spread can be reduced by modifying behaviour, especially handshakes. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 people stopped shaking hands and used the “Ebola elbow shake”.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 March 22, Terhrmba Daka, “India’s “namaste” salutation goes viral in Aso Rock”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Notwithstanding measures like the application of alcoholic cleanser (hand sanitizers), which has proved useful at every strategic entry point in the State House, staff members now resort to keeping a safe distance, rather than the hitherto warm handshake, and sometimes, generous hugs, to the now awkward ‘elbow shake’ as a way of exchange of pleasantries.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of elbow bump (“touching of elbows as alternative to a handshake”)"
      ],
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  "word": "elbow shake"
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