shake down en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to.
shake down apples from an apple tree.
- (transitive) To shake someone so money falls from their pockets.
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(broadly, slang, transitive) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats.
At 58.9K, he'd be handing over practically nine thousand dollars a year to California and to the county for the privilege of being shaken down by these thicknecks.
1996, Michael Drinkard, Disobedience, page 64:He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags.
1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 16:
- (slang, transitive) To search exhaustively.
- To subject something to a shakedown test.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shaking down | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| shakes down | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| shaken down | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| shook down | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
de durchsuchen (to search exhaustively) · de herunterschütteln (cause something to fall down) · ru стряхнуть (cause something to fall down) · mi rui (cause something to fall down) · de erpressen (to extort money using threats) · ro percheziționa (to search exhaustively) · ru сбить (cause something to fall down) · ro extorca (to extort money using threats) · de filzen (to search exhaustively) · bg бруля (cause something to fall down)