pemerasBahasa Indonesia

blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist, loan shark, moneylender

Rare #39,506 of the corpus · 0.6 per million words · 2,652 occurrences

From peras (peN-) · rare, #25,126

Noun

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

English: blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist

Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

English: usurer, loan shark, moneylender, shylock

Bahasa: tengkulak, lintah darat

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