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11 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
originEtymology tree English blackmail Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English blackmailer From blackmail + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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