What is Shake Down?
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its what the cops do when they run up in your house without a search warrant, sometimes they arrest people sometimes they just wanna see if ya know anything
cops always harrasing me givin me the shakedown
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One of my personal favorites! When we the guards decide we've had enough of one "homeboy's" shit and bust into his cell looking for contraband that may or may not be there. Somehow it always turns up!
they havin' a shake down in Big Daddy's cell. Boss Cain gonna be givin' it to em now!! He don't fool around!
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Cops raiding yo' house, persons or car illegally to find drugs, cash money or guns. Also to extract info from the victim or jus' for the hell of it.
"The cops busted a shake down on Jimmy's weedhouse."
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A shake down can be particullar to a geographic area. Basically, it is one party getting into the personal assets of another party without consent. Usually a shake down involves drugs, money, power, the law, knowledge, or any combination thereof.
I think (a party) might have something I want. We are going to do a shake down later and see.
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the brush off, or to tell you how it is
Kris was being stupid, and I had to give her the shake down!
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when some one shakes u done
ex. that police officer beat me with his night stick , it was a sick shake down.
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