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- blackmailer noun [ C ] uk / ˈblækˌmeɪ.lə r/ us / ˈblækˌmeɪ.lɚ / Add to word list someone who threatens to tell a harmful secret about another person in order to try to force them to do something:
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There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun blackmailer. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
Definition of blackmailer noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Noun. 1. blackmailer - a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them. extortioner, extortionist. criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime.
A blackmailer is a person who attempts to coerce or manipulate someone by threatening to reveal damaging or embarrassing information about them, usually in exchange for something such as money, goods, or a particular action or behavior.
The meaning of BLACKMAIL is a tribute anciently exacted on the Scottish border by plundering chiefs in exchange for immunity from pillage. How to use blackmail in a sentence.
any payment extorted by intimidation, as by threats of injurious revelations or accusations. the extortion of such payment: He confessed rather than suffer the dishonor of blackmail. a tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage. v.t.