SHAKEDOWN meaning: Extortion of money through threats

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word Shakedown:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

shakedown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shakedown: Merriam-Webster
shakedown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
shakedown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Shakedown, shakedown: Wordnik
shakedown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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shakedown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
shakedown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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shakedown: Dictionary.com
shakedown: Online Etymology Dictionary
shakedown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Shakedown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
shakedown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Shakedown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
Shakedown: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
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shakedown: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

shakedown: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Shakedown, shakedown: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shakedown)

▸ 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

Opposite:

payoff, settlement, compensation, restitution

Types:

protection, extortion, blackmail, racketeering, more...

Phrases:

Shakedown cruise, Shakedown Street, Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown, Bayside Shakedown, bayside shakedown 3, more...

Adjectives:

elastic, sexual, plastic, initial, thorough, final, routine, big, first, major, real

Colors:

midnight blue, charcoal, slate gray, gunmetal, steel blue, more...

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