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Word "SHAKEDOWN" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a very thorough search of a person or a place
Examples:
a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
extortion of money (as by blackmail)

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
Examples:
the new industry's economic shakedown

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Clue Source Date
Get you some fruit from the tree and a bed for the night
Plump up the pillow for the makeshift bed?
Plump up the pillow for the makeshift bed? (9)
Personal search putting two drinks together The Telegraph Toughie 19 Nov 2020
Extortion in America? Arab chief audibly unhappy
Radical restructuring in Washington that's thrown out head wonks The Times Cryptic 14 Apr 2016
Police search has ruffled feathers after evacuation of Kintyre
Blackmail, maybe
Gangster's practice
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