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Meaning of 'shark' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Shark [ v. i.]
- To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
- To live by shifts and stratagems.
2 . Shark [ v. t.]
- To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
3 . Shark [ v. t. & i.]
- Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
- A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
- Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.

Meaning of 'shark' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . shark [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
Example in sentence:
  • a card shark

Nearby Words:

shab shabbed shabbily shabbiness shabbing shabble shabby shabrack shack shackatory

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