BLACKMAILER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blackmailer mean? 

• BLACKMAILER (noun)
  The noun BLACKMAILER has 1 sense:

1. a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them

  Familiarity information: BLACKMAILER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACKMAILER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blackmailer; extortioner; extortionist

Hypernyms ("blackmailer" is a kind of...):

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

Derivation:

blackmail (obtain through threats)

blackmail (exert pressure on someone through threats)

 Context examples 

And who is the blackmailer?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)