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hush money |
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hush money money that you pay someone to stop them telling anyone else about something that you want to keep secret. His assistant had been paid hush money to stop him from speaking to the press. |
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There was said to be two thousand dollars a week hush money from the tubercular steers alone; and as much again from the hogs which had died of cholera on the trains, and which you might see any day being loaded into boxcars and hauled away to a place called Globe, in Indiana, where they made a fancy grade of lard. The captain raked in the hush money heavily for ten years, until even the prince's splendid fortune began to look a little foolish. |
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