Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ruthless moneylender; a loan shark.
- intransitive verb To lend money at exorbitant interest rates.
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- noun US A
loan shark . - verb intransitive, US To lend
money atexorbitant rates ofinterest .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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State law uses "shylock" in a statute dealing with loan sharks, language that is "offensive to the Jewish people," said state Sen. Eleanor Sobel, a Democrat.
Latest News 2009
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State law uses "shylock" in a statute dealing with loan sharks, language that is "offensive to the Jewish people," said state Sen. Eleanor Sobel, a Democrat.
Latest News 2009
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State law uses "shylock" in a statute dealing with loan sharks, language that is "offensive to the Jewish people," said state Sen. Eleanor Sobel, a Democrat.
Latest News 2009
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State law uses "shylock" in a statute dealing with loan sharks, language that is "offensive to the Jewish people," said state Sen. Eleanor Sobel, a Democrat.
Latest News 2009
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If you're like me, you'd rather work with your customers than play shylock, but at some point enough is enough.
Make Them Pay Robert Bovarnick 2010
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In "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich," a script that was a produced episode of the second incarnation of the Twilight Zone television show, a low-rent petty crook and shylock, Arky Lochner, makes an ill-advised deal with the Devil—well, a demon, at least, and his time is about to run out.
Cell Phonery Steve Perry 2010
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At the present time, Parisi had almost two million dollars on the street in shylock loans, which brought in close to twenty thousand a week in interest.
The Big Scam Paul Lindsay 2005
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CAFFERTY: Take my taxes to a shylock and get them done before I go out, just based on that commercial.
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After the briefest of pauses, Reid launched into a long anecdote about a shylock named Salvatore Marriano who took payment in salted herring from a destitute fishmonger named Bernard Boyle.
Little Girl Blue Cray, David 2002
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The man was known to occasionally shylock to businessmen and desperate oil wildcatters.
American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995
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