shakedown

On a shakedown hike, first-timers get a low-risk chance to learn how to use their gear and figure out if their setup meets their needs.

That’s where the shakedown hike—an overnight or short multiday trip with your thru-hiking kit—can help you.

A pack shakedown is when an experienced thru-hiker examines your pack item-by-item to help you shed weight.

Hikers tend to carry their fears, and by examining your gear, the pack shakedown allows you to dump what you won’t use and pack the lightest possible version of what you will.

That creates a good shakedown test for your truck and your navigation skills—not to mention your expectations about traveling the peninsula.

Bryan Singer himself claimed he was the victim of a “sick, twisted shakedown.”

There is still time for one more non-Mitt to get his shakedown cruise, even before Iowa.

Lies, Forstmann tells Charlie Gasparino exclusively, from a "shakedown artist."

A lot of posh produce is nothing more than a consumer shakedown.

He walked absently through the not-unpleasant routine of the shakedown.

This money is yours—and you will have a shakedown for the night—only on condition that you stick to what you've said.

"I'll make a shakedown for myself in the store room," he answered.

Bambo's usual shakedown was deserted; the pallet where the children should have been was unoccupied.

Every berth was taken, so I had a shakedown in the corridor, which was much more airy than any cabin.