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shakedown
noun
- a crude, makeshift bed, as a pallet of straw
- ☆ Slang an extortion of money, as by blackmail
- ☆ a thorough search of a person or place
adjective
for testing the performance or operational characteristics or acclimating the personnel
See shakedown in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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