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UK
/ʃˈɑːk/
]
[ US /ˈʃɑɹk/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɑɹk/ ]
NOUN
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a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
a card shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
VERB
- play the shark; act with trickery
- hunt shark
How To Use shark In A Sentence
- Among profuse schools of trevallies and barracuda, huge tunas and a host of sharks cruise the sheer wall.
- The reefs close to shore are alive with pollack, and conger eels when the boat is anchored and during the summer months there are lots of the sleek and fast running blue sharks around.
- Popular belief credits shark liver pills with being a sovereign remedy for illness ranging from arthritis to diabetes.
- He ran up massive debts borrowing from loan sharks.
- Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.
- Kitteh haz shrunken fish-hed neklace, a sharkskin war clowk adn fish blud war-paint. …and den a bear came - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- There have been concerns raised that on such a scale, the shark is at serious risk of becoming an endangered species.
- Assault and battery on an ederly woman is no worse than assaulting a gay woman, no? landshark Holder pushes hate crimes law; GOP unpersuaded
- The large lagoon and break in the reef attract many species, including dugongs, whale sharks, dolphins and manta rays.
- Fishermen have made adjustments lately to keep more keepers and feed fewer to sharks.