{n.} 1. A test. * /Let's take the new car out and give it a shakedown./ 2. An act of extorting money by threatening. * /It was a nasty shakedown, to get 500 from the old man, promising to protect him./
SHAKEDOWN
Meaning of SHAKEDOWN in English
Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012