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loan shark

noun

, Informal.
  1. a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.


loan shark

noun

  1. informal.
    a person who lends funds at illegal or exorbitant rates of interest
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of loan shark1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
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Example Sentences

Lost wages and dislocation had pushed many Sonoma residents into taking on debilitating debt from loan sharks.

One Weibo comment with over 3,600 likes said Ant’s suspended IPO was a good thing because “loan sharks shouldn’t be listed” on the stock market.

From Fortune

Vincent Asaro was also recorded telling CW-1 about collecting $30,000 on a loan-shark debt only for Di Fiore to demand half.

Vincent Asaro is also charged with joining co-defendants Ragano and Jack Bonventre in seeking to collect on loan-shark debts.

Ferreira has since opened up a pet shop, borrowing money from a loan shark, who apparently “took pity on her,” Machado says.

Then, determined to get something out of the policy, he had gone to a loan-shark.

A loan-shark does not lose much time in matters of this sort.

Then the loan shark sends in a statement of the account, and, if the manufacturer complains, begins to show his teeth.

"Say, five hundred dollars," the loan shark generously offered.

He had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt.

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