shake down

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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.
    shake down apples from an apple tree.
  2. (transitive) To shake someone so money falls from their pockets. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (slang, transitive, by extension) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats.
  4. (slang, transitive) To search exhaustively.
  5. To subject something to a shakedown test.

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