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Answer for the clue "Gangster's practice ", 9 letters:
shakedown

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shakedown is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Joseph Pevney starring Howard Duff , Brian Donlevy , Peggy Dow , Lawrence Tierney , Bruce Bennett and Anne Vernon .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. that tests the performance of a ship or aircraft n. 1 (context slang English) extortion, especially through blackmail 2 (context slang English) A thorough search; a frisk 3 A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft 4 An improvised bed.

Usage examples of shakedown.

Captain North had told Rockham that the Archerfish had undergone a complete shakedown cruise after her DOS modifications had been completed.

Taipei and Vancouver, Grandfather Choi still had that cold eye and that grim shakedown look.

The crack house still thrived, the police were still uncooperative, and his neighbors were unwilling to batter through their walls of inertia and distrust even though the daily hassles and shakedowns had grown intolerable.

Idly she wondered if Caleb Rustin might not have gone on to finish the Mark 5 that had been skeletal when she left on the shakedown cruise.

They're going to devote more energy to it, appoint a more important ambassador to Boaco Eight … there's going to be a general shakedown.

With lady cuiva safely on the shakedown cruise, the apg feels certain he can prove lady vescuya's duplicity.

It was in truth merely a log house with shakedowns, and stood across the rude road from his log farmhouse.

As a former security chief himself, Chekov had mentored Orsini throughout the shakedown cruise.