<Li> shakedown: to blackmail or try to get money from someone; also to give someone a scare . </Li> <Li> shy: the interest charged on loans by loansharks . </Li> <Li> shylockbusiness: the business of loansharking . </Li> <Li> soldier: the bottom - level member of an organized crime Family, as in "foot soldiers ." </Li>

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