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
Idoya	ee-DHOI-ah	Spanish
Sunitha	-	Indian, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam
Saturnina	sah-toor-NEE-nah (Spanish)	Ancient Roman, Spanish
Zdravka	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Mirembe	-	Eastern African, Ganda
Taras	tah-RAHS (Russian)	Ukrainian, Russian