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blackmail
what exactly is blackmail?
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hey. blackmail is when somebody either has something of yours or knows something about you (generally something bad) and then they use it against you, usually to gain something they want. Hope I helped ♥ fabulous
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blackmail is when you get bad pictures of someone you hate and post them around everywhere. just joking kinda but its like digging up dirt about sumone and spreading it
or threaatening to spread the dirt you digged up if the person wnt do what you want
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black·mail
–noun 1. any payment extorted by intimidation, as by threats of injurious revelations or accusations.
2. the extortion of such payment: He confessed rather than suffer the dishonor of blackmail.
3. a tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage.
But the way I put it is:
Something you've done wrong; don't want a certain person to know; embarrassing photos, videos, proof of some sort etc, etc, etc. That another person knows of you. If you don't do what they desire, they can show them what you don't want them to reveal.
Hopefully that made sense.
Hope I helped. :)
-MADLYxINxLOVE
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1. use of secrets to compel: the act of forcing somebody to pay money or do something by threatening to reveal shameful or incriminating facts about him or her. See also greenmail n.
See also graymail
2. coercion: unfair threatening or incriminating of somebody, as a way of achieving a result
Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Its just a way of backstabbing someone by telling someone something about that person that was supposed to be a secret. It's a way to keep someone quiet about something else, like something you did,so if you have something on that person you can use it against them.
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To add to younggrandma's answer, it is a crime to blackmail some one.
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From answers.com
1. Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information.
2. Something of value extorted in this manner.
2. Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage.
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