shark
IPA: ʃˈɑrk
noun
- (ichthyology) A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- The noctuid moth Cucullia umbratica.
- (UK, university slang) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
verb
- (rare) To fish for sharks.
- (UK, university slang) Of a university student who is not a fresher, to engage in sexual activity with a fresher, or to be at a bar or club with the general intention of engaging in such activity.
- (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.
- (obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
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Examples of "shark" in Sentences
- The shark grins at the camera.
- The toy is a remold of the shark.
- The shark is too small in the picture.
- Ruthless hooks the shark in the cherub.
- It is often confused with the dusky shark.
- Shark fin was shown on surface of the water.
- A highlight is the interaction of the divers with sharks.
- The shark was captured and the man escaped with the tuna.
- The image below the whale shark is credited to the Georgia Aquarium.
- The modern niche is filled by several species of sharks and the baleen whales.
- These are often removed while the shark is alive: the mutilated animal is then thrown overboard.
- Named in 1884, this shark is a living representative of a primitive shark order, Hexanchiformes.
- Yes | No | Report from bailor 09 wrote 39 weeks 6 days ago thats a good one and the shark is nice too
- If you're in shark filled waters swimming toward land a knife is not going to help much you need your brain above all else.
- If we hear the word shark .. everyone will think that it is dangerous but do you know that the dangerous kind of shark is not plenty there.
- The old grandfather had died in the meantime, so that he was dependent on the food supplied by his stepfather and uncles, and they had to expostulate with him on what they called his shark-like voracity.
- An Iraqi judge from 13th-century CE described sharks in the Tigris River as having eyes "like fires of blood ... all other species run away from it" and the Mayans had an ominous, killer demon known as Ah Xoc, which some have argued gave us the word shark.
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