Blackmail
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Blackmail refers to a situation that arises when a person threatens another person with some form of punishment if they do not offer some form of concessions. Blackmail is usually the result of one person somehow obtaining embarassing information about another and threatening to disclose it unless some form of payment (money or favors) is offered. The term originates from the words black and mail, which referred to the dark or threatening nature of the letters (mail) that were received detailing the threat. Although blackmail usually entails paying a price to obtain another person's silence about an embarassing situation, it need not involve an actual event before it can be conducted. The threat of embarassing someone for a contrived event can be enough to conduct blackmail effectively, provided the threat is believable.
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noun: a horrible or funny embarrassing picture of a friend or someone that you know that you are able to use against them
verb: (to) blackmail; to take an embarrassing picture or to use an embarrassing picture against somebody. -
Mail for black people.
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To beat someone in any sort of athletic event
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To [force] (someone) to do something by using threats or [manipulating] their [feelings].
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The action, treated as a criminal offense, of demanding payment or another benefit from someone in return for not revealing compromising or damaging information about them.
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the act of getting money from people or forcing them to do something by threatening to tell a secret of theirs or to harm them:
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Something that my friend entitled Juice Shoe calls threatening to tell [my crush] [I like him] if I refuse to do her [bidding].
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