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A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
1569, The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix., a http://www.strangescience.net/pics/lonshark.gif broadside printed in London, the earliest known use of the term; reprinted in A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597'' in 1867:
- 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.
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Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
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puhekieltä A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.
puhekieltä A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
puhekieltä A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
puhekieltä A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
puhekieltä To steal or obtain through fraud.
puhekieltä To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
Bishop Earle
- Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.
puhekieltä To live by shifts and stratagems.
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puhekieltä To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Shakespeare, Hamlet I.i.
- Fortinbras (..) Hath (..) Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes.
shell (of certain fruits like nuts, hazel, chestnut etc)
skin (that covers the seed of certain fruits like peach, grape, prunes etc)
snake skin
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