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Substantiivit
- A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
Verbit
- (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
- (obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.
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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