"shake down" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: shakes down [present, singular, third-person], shaking down [participle, present], shook down [past], shaken down [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|shake<,,shook,shaken> down}} shake down (third-person singular simple present shakes down, present participle shaking down, simple past shook down, past participle shaken down)
  1. (transitive) To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to. Tags: transitive Translations (cause something to fall down): herunterschütteln (German), rui (Maori)
    Sense id: en-shake_down-en-verb-3Yfp5q5d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "down", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Romanian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 4 20 31 4 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "down": 49 5 16 24 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 45 7 16 25 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 4 18 27 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 3 16 28 3 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 53 6 14 20 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 50 5 14 20 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 50 5 14 20 11 Disambiguation of 'cause something to fall down': 94 1 2 1 1
  2. (transitive) To shake someone so money falls from their pockets. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-shake_down-en-verb-qRM12cWT
  3. (slang, transitive, by extension) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats. Tags: broadly, slang, transitive Translations (to extort money using threats): erpressen (German), extorca (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-shake_down-en-verb-jH2oXmrz Disambiguation of 'to extort money using threats': 19 7 59 12 3
  4. (slang, transitive) To search exhaustively. Tags: slang, transitive Translations (to search exhaustively): durchsuchen (German), filzen (German), percheziționa (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-shake_down-en-verb-cXZYqAku Disambiguation of 'to search exhaustively': 7 1 3 89 1
  5. To subject something to a shakedown test.
    Sense id: en-shake_down-en-verb-rvsus9Nw

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to."
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      "sense": "cause something to fall down",
      "word": "herunterschütteln"
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      "sense": "to extort money using threats",
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      "sense": "to extort money using threats",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to search exhaustively",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to search exhaustively",
      "word": "filzen"
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