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shakedown
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shakedown (also known in international markets as Blue Jean Cop ) is a 1988 crime drama / action movie starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliott . The movie is about an idealistic lawyer teaming with a veteran cop to find out the truth in a possible police ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shakedown \Shake"down`\, n. A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. --Sir W. Scott.
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.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ No firearms were found during the shakedowns at the prison, but guards did recover several knives. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I am sitting on the edge of the shakedown bed I had hoped to sleep in. ▪ Instead, the legislators ...
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.