Usually means: Extort money through threats, pressure.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. shake down: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shake down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shake down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shake-down: Wordnik
  5. shake down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shake-down, shake down: Wiktionary
  7. shake-down, shake down: Dictionary.com
  8. Shake Down (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. shake down: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake down: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake down: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shake down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shake down: Urban Dictionary

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (shake down)

verb:  (transitive) To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to.
verb:  (transitive) To shake someone so money falls from their pockets.
verb:  (slang, transitive, by extension) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To search exhaustively.
verb:  To subject something to a shakedown test.

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