Term: shakedown: extortion of money (as by blackmail)
Candidate hypernym: extortion: the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence) → 1
Candidate hypernym: bass: the lowest part in polyphonic music → 0
Candidate hypernym: capparis: tropical or subtropical evergreen shrubs or small trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: beard: a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses → 0
Candidate hypernym: tie: (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value → 0
Candidate hypernym: playbill: a theatrical program → 0
Candidate hypernym: australian sumac: evergreen of Australia yielding a dark yellow wood → 0
Candidate hypernym: contemptuousness: the manifestation of scorn and contempt → 0
Candidate hypernym: linkage: (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) → 0
Candidate hypernym: house: a building in which something is sheltered or located → 0
Candidate hypernym: male horse: the male of species Equus caballus → 0