shakedown

We were on the Xcel for its “shakedown cruise,” a final test run new ships often go through before making their public debuts.

According to authorities, this was an old-fashioned shakedown carried out by the largest gang in the city, Pomona 12th Street.

Apparently, the easiest shakedown targets are single people.

Next time he'd be dead, the gunman told him, unless the bus company paid a shakedown.

The producer’s legal team quickly denied the allegations last October and dismissed the complaint as a “pure shakedown.”