Reverse Dictionary: BLACKMAIL

NOUNS
1858 ► BADGER GAME a luring men into (esp. sexually) compromising situations in order to blackmail them → sl., orig. US criminals’ usage
1950 ► BOOT POLISH blackmail → UK criminals sl.
1970 ► SANCTIFICATION blackmail, esp. by secret services or foreign diplomats → sl.
1998 ► FAIRY-SHAKING blackmailing married men who frequent homosexual bars and similar places → US sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1833 ► BLACKMAILER a person who extorts, or endeavours to extort money by blackmailing 
1858 ► BADGER a blackmailer whose speciality is the badger game (a racket where a prostitute’s accomplice steals from or blackmails her customer, usually by posing as her wronged husband) → criminals’ sl.
1859 ► GHOUL a man who watches houses where lovers meet, then follows the woman home to demand money and/or sex to keep the news from her husband → US criminals’ sl. obs.
1859 ► VAMPIRE a person who blackmails men and women he sees entering and exiting whorehouses → obs. criminals’ sl.
1875 ► HIGHBINDER a person of a secret society or gang said to exist among the Chinese in California and other parts of the United States for the purpose of blackmailing and even of assassination; an extortioner or an assassin → hist.
1891 ► SANDBAGGER a blackmailer → US criminals’ sl. obs. (Bk.)
1895 ► BLACKBIRD a blackmailer or confidence man → criminals’ sl.
1904 ► STRIKER a blackmailer → sl. (Bk.)
1904 ► SUCKER a blackmailer → Amer., political usage (Bk.)
1914 ► BADGE a blackmailer; an extortioner → criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1930 ► BEETLE-MAN a blackmailer → criminals’ sl.
1930 ► HIGHBIND a blackmailer who victimizes gamblers and prostitutes by threatening death, esp. such a person, often Chinese, in San Francisco → criminals’ sl. obs.
1931 ► BLACK a blackmailer → UK sl.
1945 ► BADGER WORKER a blackmailer who plays the badger game → criminals’ sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
1872 ► SHAKE DOWN to blackmail or otherwise pressurize a person for money, etc.; to extort money from → US sl.
1924 ► PUT THE BLACK ON to blackmail → sl.
1928 ► BLACK to blackmail → sl.
1933 ► PUT THE BITE ON to blackmail, to extort money from → sl., orig. US
1943 ► PUT THE ARM ON to blackmail, to extort; to pressurize with criminal intent → US sl.
1945 ► PUT THE FANGS INTO to pressurize, to blackmail → Aust. sl.
1970 ► MOUSE to blackmail → US sl.
1970 ► SANCTIFY to blackmail someone, esp. for the purposes of extracting political favours → sl.