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(slang) extortion of money (as by blackmail)
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shakedown
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Shakedown is the debut album by house production duo Freemasons . It was released on 21 January 2007, with the single "Rain Down Love" being released two weeks earlier in anticipation of the album. "Nothing But a Heartache", a cover of the original single ...
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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.
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adj. intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system; "a shakedown cruise" n. initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the new ...
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.