shylock

IPA: ʃˈaɪɫɑk

(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.]

Examples of "shylock" in Sentences

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.