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Definitions for loan shark

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

loan′ shark`*(n.)

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

    Category: Informal

* Informal..

Origin of loan shark:

1900–05, Amer.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. usurer, loan shark, moneylender, shylock(noun)

    someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

Wiktionary

  1. loan shark(Noun)

    Someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest.

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