Usually means: Extortion of money through threats.
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  1. shakedown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shakedown: Merriam-Webster
  3. shakedown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shakedown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shakedown: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shakedown: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shakedown, shakedown: Wordnik
  8. shakedown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shakedown: Wiktionary
  10. shakedown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shakedown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shakedown: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shakedown: Dictionary.com
  14. shakedown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shakedown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shakedown (Bob Seger song), Shakedown (Snowboard Games), Shakedown (album), Shakedown (band), Shakedown (continuum mechanics), Shakedown (group), Shakedown (testing), Shakedown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shakedown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shakedown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shakedown: Rhymezone
  20. Shakedown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. Shakedown: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. shakedown: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shakedown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shakedown: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Shakedown (disambiguation), shakedown: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shakedown: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Shakedown, shakedown: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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noun:  (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail
noun:  (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
noun:  A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
noun:  An improvised bed.
adjective:  that tests the performance of a ship or aircraft

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