shakedown

參見：shake down 和 shake-down

英語

其他形式

shake-down

詞源

shake down 的動詞派生詞。以前曾有將稻草搖下來做簡易臨時床鋪的方法。

發音

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名詞

shakedown (複數 shakedowns)

(俚語) 敲詐勒索
What is this, a shakedown?
幹啥呢，勒索嗎？
- 2021年8月25日, Tassanee Vejpongsa, 「Four Thai Police Charged in Drug Suspect’s Death After Video Surfaces」, 出自 Bloomberg‎^[1], Bloomberg, retrieved 2021-08-25:
  Four Thai police officers charged with murder in connection with the deadly shakedown of a suspected drug dealer in custody were arrested Wednesday after a video clip of the incident shared on social media caused a public furor.
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(俚語) 搜索；搜身
(尤指船舶或航空器等的) 試驗期，試用期
簡易臨時床鋪
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia，第 79 頁:
  All sorts of gossip floated about; one story told was that a selector, and not the youngest of that staid and sober party, was found putting his boots into his shakedown at night, and lying outside the entrance of his tent, giving careful directions to some one to call him in time for the morning mail.
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- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
  "There's nowhere for me to lie down, sir," he answered, and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very distressing. -- "Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown?" -- "No, sir."
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- 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, 出版於 2018，第 107 頁:
  ‘You two,’ he says, ‘you're not going back tonight. […] I can make you shake-downs on the veranda and we'll have a bite to eat.’
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形容詞

shakedown

試驗性能的

異序詞

hawknosed