English Dictionary

shakedown

名詞

俗語

(slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail / (slang) A thorough search; a frisk / A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft / An improvised bed.

日本語の意味

恐喝：脅迫や強要によって金品を奪い取る行為（俗語） / 徹底した捜索・検査：身体検査や隠し物探しなどを含む詳細な調査（俗語） / 試験運転・試用期間：特に船や航空機などの新たな運用前の試験期間 / 即席の寝床：簡易に用意された仮の寝台

The mayor resigned after details of a shakedown surfaced in the press.

その市長は、恐喝の詳細が報道された後、辞任した。

意味（1）

(slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail

What is this, a shakedown?

意味（2）

(slang) A thorough search; a frisk

意味（3）

A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft

意味（4）

An improvised bed.

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.

shakedowns （ plural ）