Blackmailer

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blackmailer \Black"mail`er\, n.
     One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black
     mailing.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  blackmailer
       n : a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to
           expose embarrassing information about them [syn: {extortioner},
            {extortionist}]