shakedown

Synonyms for shakedown

noun extortion

noun. blackmail; cheating

noun. preparation for performance

I'll come in later, and if they'll make me a shakedown, I'll stay with you to-night.

We'll scare you up a shakedown to sleep on and you're welcome as welcome.

You and I are to sleep here, Mary,” she said, “and Peter is to have a shakedown in the sitting-room.

I assure you, my dear friends, it's a shakedown fit for a prince!

"He said he'd beg a shakedown at your house, Violet," George interrupted.

He walked absently through the not-unpleasant routine of the shakedown.

This money is yours—and you will have a shakedown for the night—only on condition that you stick to what you've said.

There was to be a cruiser waiting at Bremerton for a shakedown cruise.

The accommodation a shakedown on some planks, and breakfast in the morning.

But we're full up, all six beds; there isn't even a corner for a shakedown.