Synonyms of shaking down

shaking down

verb

present participle of shake down

as in cheating

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

the rumor is that he started his career shaking people down as an enforcer for the mob

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheating
• stinging
• squeezing
• plucking
• ripping off
• hustling
• doing
• sticking
• doing in
• beating
• screwing
• bleeding
• taking for a ride
• taking to the cleaners
• selling a bill of goods to
• chousing
• thimblerigging
• deceiving
• flimflamming
• euchring
• defrauding
• shorting
• swindling
• shortchanging
• fiddling
• victimizing
• reaming
• mulcting
• fleecing
• rooking
• tricking
• bilking
• skinning
• exploiting
• conning
• suckering
• gaffing
• cozening
• chiseling
• hosing
• diddling
• stiffing
• nobbling
• betraying
• fooling
• wrenching
• skunking
• chiselling
• extorting
• clipping
• gouging
• milking
• soaking
• wringing
• roping (in)
• overcharging
• nicking
• wresting
• duping
• gulling
• bitching
• bamboozling
• double-crossing
• fast-talking