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shark (shärk)

1. Any of numerous chiefly marine carnivorous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes (subclass Elasmobranchii), which are sometimes large and voracious and have a streamlined torpedolike body, five to seven gill openings on each side of the head, a large oil-filled liver, a cartilaginous skeleton, and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales.

a. A person regarded as ruthless, greedy, or dishonest.

b. A vicious usurer.

3. Slang A person unusually skilled in a particular activity: a card shark.

v. sharked, shark·ing, sharks

v.tr. Archaic

To obtain by deceitful means.

v.intr.

To practice or live by fraud and trickery.

[Origin unknown.]

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