‘Blackmailed’

When one talks of the word Blackmail, what does it really mean?  Have you ever been in a situation of being blackmailed? Blackmail means threatening to say something bad about someone unless that person pays some money. If someone has committed an offence or a crime, another person might blackmail them. The blackmailer might, for example, say that if the offender does not give them a X or Y they will tell the authority. 
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