shylock
IPA: ʃˈaɪɫɑk
noun
- (US) A loan shark; a usurer.
- (offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Jewish descent.
- (fiction) A moneylender (Jewish stereotype) in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- Alternative letter-case form of shylock [(US) A loan shark; a usurer.]
verb
- (intransitive, US) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest.
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Examples of "shylock" in Sentences
- Shylock and modern antisemitism.
- Shylock and the antisemitism debate.
- Is Shylock really a villain or a victim.
- She also takes money and jewels from Shylock.
- Shylock has Antonio arrested and brought before court.
- The Nazis used the usurious Shylock for their propaganda.
- Is it factual that the derivation of 'shyster' is 'shylock'
- Shylock is the same meaning and it's offensive towards Jews.
- In another version I've read, he was called 'Shylock the Covetous Jew.'
- May bee associated with Shylock, but that is probably the incorrect etymology.
- The man was known to occasionally shylock to businessmen and desperate oil wildcatters.
- CAFFERTY: Take my taxes to a shylock and get them done before I go out, just based on that commercial.
- If you're like me, you'd rather work with your customers than play shylock, but at some point enough is enough.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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