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shake down (三人称単数 現在形 shakes down, 現在分詞 shaking down, 過去形 shook down, 過去分詞 shaken down)

1. (transitive) To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to.

   shake down apples from an apple tree.

2. (transitive) To shake someone so money falls from their pockets. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (slang, transitive, by extension) To extort money from (someone) by means of threats.
   • 1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 16:

     He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags.

4. (slang, transitive) To search exhaustively.
5. To subject something to a shakedown test.