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blackjack
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of BLACKJACK
1
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure <you cannot blackjack me into going along with this>
Synonyms blackjack, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, drive, impel, impress, make, muscle, obligate, oblige, press, pressure, sandbag
2
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats <a couple of thugs trying to blackjack a shopkeeper into paying protection money>
Related Words bluster, trash-talk; affright, alarm (also alarum), frighten, horrify, scare, shock, spook, startle, terrify; menace, terrorize, threaten; badger, harass, hound; bludgeon, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, force, make, oblige, press, pressure, push around; demoralize, psych (out), unman, unnerve; discompose, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, perturb, upset
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