English Dictionary

shakedown

noun

(slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail / (slang) A thorough search; a frisk / A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft / An improvised bed.

The mob boss used a shakedown to extort money from the business owner.

意味（1）

(slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail

What is this, a shakedown?

意味（2）

(slang) A thorough search; a frisk

意味（3）

A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft

意味（4）

An improvised bed.

All sorts of gossip floated about; one story told was that a selector, and not the youngest of that staid and sober party, was found putting his boots into his shakedown at night, and lying outside the entrance of his tent, giving careful directions to some one to call him in time for the morning mail.