Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Prowling or voracious like a shark; greedy; always on the outlook for something to snap up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
shark .
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Examples
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That is worse than loan sharking, that is making the American people indentured servants to the banks.
Senate Allows Credit Card Banksters to Continue 'Loan Sharking' 2009
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Well, that and "sharking," which Ali had been told that day means biting someone on the ass.
Waxing the camel shunn 2007
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Tracy describing a ''sharking'' attack and saying "some of you Puritans might call it: sexual assault."
Post Your Favorite TV Quotes of the Week | the TV addict 2007
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Well, that and "sharking," which Ali had been told that day means biting someone on the ass.
Waxing the camel shunn 2007
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In a town full of hustlers, prostitutes, and gamblers, the profession they looked down on was loan sharking.
Don McNay: Legalized Loan Sharks Don McNay 2011
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If there was ever a shining example of why you should move your money from Wall Street, legalized loan sharking is a good one.
Don McNay: Legalized Loan Sharks Don McNay 2011
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Local governments regularly use these surveillance powers — which they “self-authorize,” without oversight from judges or law enforcement officers — to investigate malfeasance like illegally dumping industrial waste, loan-sharking and falsely claiming welfare benefits.
Where Are Angry Mobs When We Need Them? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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In a town full of hustlers, prostitutes, and gamblers, the profession they looked down on was loan sharking.
Don McNay: Legalized Loan Sharks Don McNay 2011
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Yeah, I guess the predatory lending practices of credit card companies are helpful to the poor -- just like loan sharking, gambling, drug dealing and robbing banks are helpful to the poor.
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It talked about the folly, feast, then famine caused by the public bonding process in mid evil times when the original Prince Machiavelli's stopped being hung in back ally's for loan sharking and started to rule the world.
New stands at PGE Park will be uncomfortable (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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