Berry Blackmail

Berry

A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit. Typically, berries are juicy, rounded, brightly colored, sweet, sour or tart, and do not have a stone or pit although many pips or seeds may be present.‍ Common examples of berries in the culinary sense are strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, white currants, blackcurrants, and redcurrants.‍ In Britain, soft fruit is a horticultural term for such fruits.‍

Blackmail

Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat. As a criminal offense, blackmail is defined in various ways in common law jurisdictions. In the United States, blackmail is generally defined as a crime of information, involving a threat to do something that would cause a person to suffer embarrassment or financial loss. By contrast, in the Commonwealth its definition is wider: for example, the laws of England and Wales and Northern Ireland state that:

berry

Noun

1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
2. A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.

Verb

1. To pick berries.
2. To bear or produce berries.

blackmail

Noun

1. The extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure.
2. Compromising material that can be used to extort someone.

Verb

1. To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
2. To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.