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Blackjack

exert pressure on someone through threats

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Bludgeon 76% connected

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flag 76% connected

To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Influence 76% connected

A flowing in or upon; influx.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blackmail 74% connected

A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blackmail 74% connected

A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blackmailer 74% connected

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blackmailer 74% connected

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blackmail 92% connected

A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pressure 92% connected

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sap 92% connected

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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