Reverse Dictionary: EXTORT

ADJECTIVES
1387 ► TORCENOUS extortionate, exacting → obs.
1535 ► EXTORTIOUS characterized by extortion → obs.
1580 ► RACKING extortionate, exacting
1602 ► EXTORTIOUS gained by extortion; demanded in an extortionate manner
1632 ► EXTORTIONABLE characterized by extortion
1644 ► EXTORTIONOUS characterized by extortion, oppressive → obs.
1669 ► EXTORSIVE obtained by extortion
1805 ► EXTORTIONARY given to extortion

NOUNS
1592 ► GARNISH money extorted from a new prisoner, either as a jailer’s fee, or as drink-money for the other prisoners → sl. obs.
1608 ► RING money obtained by begging or extortion → sl. obs.
M19. ► SHAVE an act or instance of swindling or extortion; a swindle → colloq.
1890 ► STRIKE an unscrupulous attempt to extort money or to obtain other personal advantage → sl.
1902 ► SHAKE-DOWN an instance of extortion → sl., orig. & chiefly US
1930 ► THE SCARE extortion using menaces → US criminals’ sl.
1935 ► JUICE protection money, extortion → US sl.
1948 ► ICE protection money, bribes, extortion → US sl.
1970 ► THE MOUSE extortion → US sl.
1977 ► FAG-BAGGING a robbing or extorting money from homosexuals → Amer. sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1400 ► LICKPENNY one who ‘licks up’ the pennies; a greedy, covetous person; a miser; a spendthrift; an extortioner → obs.
1500 ► SCAFFER a parasite, a sponger; an extortioner → Sc. obs.
1586 ► SUCK-PURSE an extortioner → obs.
1589 ► HARPY a rapacious, plundering, or grasping person; one that preys upon others; an extortioner
1598 ► PURSE-LEECH a person greedy for money; a grasping person; an extortioner → obs.
1609 ► BARATHRUM anything that swallows up or devours; the belly; an insatiable extortioner or glutton
1741 ► VAMPIRE a person of a malignant and loathsome character, esp. one who preys ruthlessly upon others; a vile and cruel exactor or extortioner
1844 ► MONEY SHARK an avaricious money-dealer; a usurer; an extortioner → orig. US
1875 ► HIGHBINDER one 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.
1888 ► NAILER an extortioner → colloq.
1894 ► BLEEDER one who extorts money
1905 ► BLACK HANDER a person involved in Black Hand methods of extortion (a method used by members of the Italian-American criminal underworld); a swindler, terrorist, or extortionist → US hist.
1913 ► BLISTER an extortioner → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1914 ► BADGE a blackmailer; an extortioner → criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1920 ► SANDBAG ARTIST an extortionist → sl.
1924 ► RACKETEER a person, esp. a member of a gang or crime syndicate, who earns money through a dishonest or illegal business, typically involving extortion, intimidation, or violence; a swindler or extortionist → orig. US
1982 ► MADAME the victim of an extortion scheme → US sl.

VERBS
1399 ► SHAVE to strip a person of money or possessions by fraud, extortion, etc.; to swindle
1567 ► EXTORSE to practice extortion upon; hence, to oppress → Sc. obs.
1591 ► RACK to extort money, etc. → obs.
1596 ► SHARK ON to prey like a sharp upon; to victimize, to sponge upon, to swindle; to oppress by extortion → obs.
1623 ► EXTORQUE to extort → obs.
1630 ► EXTORTIONIZE to practice extortion → obs.
1680 ► BLEED to draw or extort money from → colloq.
1796 ► SCONCE to extort, to cheat; to trick out of → Sc.
M19. ► TAKE to swindle, to cheat, to deceive, to extort money from; to victimize → sl.
1872 ► SHAKE DOWN to extort money from; to blackmail or otherwise pressurize a person for money, etc. → US sl.
L19.. ► SOAK to charge a high price; to tax heavily; to extort money from → sl., orig. US
1903 ► STING FOR to extort money from → sl., orig. US
1920 ► RACKETEER to practise any form of criminal deception, trickery, extortion, etc. → sl.
1930 ► SANDBAG to extort → sl.
1933 ► PUT THE BITE ON to ask for a loan, to borrow money from someone; also, to threaten, to blackmail, to extort money from  → sl., orig. US
1940 ► SHAKE to extort → African-American sl.
2006 ► BLEED ONE DRY to extort money from someone; to take all of someone’s money → US sl. (Bk.)
2006 ► BLEED ONE WHITE to extort money from someone; to take all of someone’s money → US sl. (Bk.)