shake someone down

1. tv. to blackmail someone. (Underworld.) The police chief was trying to shake down just about everybody in town.

2. tv. to put pressure on someone to lend one money. We tried to shake them down for a few hundred, but no deal.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Horatio	hə-RAY-shee-o, hə-RAY-sho	English
Sigiheri	-	Ancient Germanic
Heintje	HIEN-tyə	Dutch
Rudolf	ROO-dawlf (German), RUW-dawlf (Polish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Russian, Arm
Barrett	BAR-ət	English
Liv (2)	LIV	English