SHAKEDOWN


Meaning of SHAKEDOWN in English

{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./

Slang English vocab.      Английский сленговый словарь.