blackmailer

noun

Definition of blackmailernext
as in gangster
a person who gets money from another by using force or threats the blackmailer threatened to tell the media about the mayor's arrest as a teenager

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  1. gangster
  2. thug
  3. racketeer
Noun
  • His family told the local press that the man responsible for his death was a gangster from a rival group who had been living in exile in South Africa.
    Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The group’s chairman is John Chan, a former Chinatown gangster convicted of human trafficking and drug smuggling charges in the mid-2000s who has since become influential in New York politics.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of gangster
Noun
  • The proximate cause of the war crimes chronicled in Han’s novels is South Korea’s succession of authoritarian governments, their soldiers and police; on Jeju Island, these were joined by gangs of right-wing thugs.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, that is Canet playing the paragliding avenger, Franck, who’s trying to free his abducted pregnant wife, Léo (Stéphane Caillard), from a blackmailing thug.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of thug
Noun
  • Oh yeah, this relationship with this 38-year-old racketeer is so beautiful.
    Michael Cuby, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
  • While President Herbert Hoover had waged a war against kidnappers and racketeers, Roosevelt amplified the effort dramatically, pushed it in new directions, and overcame the jurisdictional, racial, partisan, and class divisions that had previously obstructed the law-and-order state.
    Anthony Gregory / Made by History, TIME, 23 July 2024
Definition of racketeer
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