shake down
59 synonyms found
- accommodation
- adjustment
- assay
- badger
- blackmail
- bring to test
- confirm
- cut and try
- exact
- experiment
- extort
- extortion
- fan
- fitting
- force from
- frisk
- give a try
- give a tryout
- gouge
- have a go
- hunt
- hunting
- levy blackmail
- look all over
- look everywhere
- pinch
- play around with
- practice upon
- prove
- pry loose from
- put to trial
- rake
- ransack
- rend
- rend from
- rifle
- rip
- rip from
- road-test
- run a sample
- sample
- search
- search high heaven
- snatch from
- squeeze
- substantiate
- tear from
- toss
- try it on
- try out
- turn inside out
- turn upside down
- validate
- verify
- wrench
- wrench from
- wrest
- wring
- wring from
Definition
(adj) :
intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system
"a shakedown cruise"
(n) :
extortion of money (as by blackmail); a very thorough search of a person or a place
"a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"