hush money

1. 1.

   a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret

   Broaderbribe

Questions about hush money

What does hush money mean?

hush money means "a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret".

Is hush money a common word?

hush money is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.