shake down (English, verb)
expansion: shake down (third-person singular simple present shakes down, present participle shaking down, simple past shook down, past participle shaken down)
Senses:
glosses: To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to.
tags: transitive
glosses: To shake someone so money falls from their pockets.
tags: transitive
glosses: To extort money from (someone) by means of threats.
tags: broadly
slang
transitive
glosses: To search exhaustively.
tags: slang
transitive
glosses: To subject something to a shakedown test.
Forms:
form: shakes down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shaking down
tags: participle
present
form: shook down
tags: past
form: shaken down
tags: participle
past