Defenition of the word shark
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Defenition of the word shark
- A scaleless fish with a cartilaginous skeleton that has 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; "a card shark"
- hunt shark
- play the shark; act with trickery
- someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
Synonyms for the word shark
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- con artist
- crook
- double-dealer
- loan shark
- moneylender
- swindler
- usurer
Similar words in the shark
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- shark
- shark's
- sharked
- sharking
- sharks
- sharkskin
- sharkskin's
Hyponyms for the word shark
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- Alopius vulpinus
- angel shark
- angelfish
- Carcharias taurus
- carpet shark
- cat shark
- cow shark
- dogfish
- fox shark
- Ginglymostoma cirratum
- hammerhead
- hammerhead shark
- Hexanchus griseus
- loan shark
- mackerel shark
- moneylender
- monkfish
- nurse shark
- Odontaspis taurus
- Orectolobus barbatus
- requiem shark
- Rhincodon typus
- sand shark
- sand tiger
- shylock
- six-gilled shark
- Squatina squatina
- thrasher
- thresher
- thresher shark
- usurer
- whale shark
Hypernyms for the word shark
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- cheat
- chisel
- elasmobranch
- expert
- fish
- lender
- loaner
- offender
- selachian
- wrongdoer
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