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Substantiivi
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- A freshwater fish that resembles a true shark (Selachimorpha) in appearance or movement; a freshwater shark.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
Verbi
- (obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
- (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
- (intransitive, rare) To fish for sharks.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
- (UK, university slang, mildly derogatory) Of a university student who is not a fresher (first-year undergraduate), and especially towards the start of the academic year:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.
- (transitive) To engage in sexual activity with a fresher.
- (intransitive) To cruise for casual sex with a fresher at a bar or club.
Esimerkit
- The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, [...]. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.
- He said he had spoken to a woman who was kayaking off Catalina Island, California, in 2008 when a shark slammed her kayak from underneath and sent her flying into the air. She then landed on the back of the shark, Collier said. "At that point the shark started to swim out to sea, so she jumped off its back," Collier said.
- “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”
- Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.
- Fortinbras [...] Hath [...] Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes.
- pool shark
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