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Noun: shark  shaa(r)k
  1. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
    "Great white sharks are apex predators in many marine ecosystems"
     
  2. A person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
    "The used car salesman was known as a shark in the industry"
     
  3. A person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
    "a card shark"
Verb: shark  shaa(r)k
  1. Play the shark; act with trickery
    "The experienced gambler sharked the newcomers at the poker table"
     
  2. Hunt shark
    "They sharked in the deep waters off the coast"

Derived forms: sharks, sharking, sharked

Type of: cheat, chisel [informal], elasmobranch, expert, fish, offender, selachian, wrongdoer

Encyclopedia: Shark, Kyrgyzstan