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shakedown
noun- a search of a person or place US, 1914
- They put on “a shakedown” as the girls called it. Top officers went into each cottage and searched room by room for it. — Helen Bryan, Inside, p. 177, 1953
- — Paul Glover, Words from the House of the Dead: Prison Writings from Soledad, 1974
- That’s it? I say, expecting more of a shakedown at this hour. — Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, The Rule of Four, p. 167, 2004
- an act of extortion US, 1902
- The “security officer” (refined designation for a house dick) of one of the oldest and most famous hotels in Washington, near the White House, was recently fired because he ran a shakedown racket[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, pp. 285–286, 1951
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