Definitions for loan-shark

loan-shark loan shark

Loan-Shark is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 352 anagrams from letters in loan-shark (-aahklnors).

Definitions for loan-shark

noun

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

Origin of loan-shark

An Americanism dating back to 1900-05

Examples for loan-shark

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.

We know that every subject now has its literature, from "votes for women" to the extermination of the house fly or the loan shark.

We are solving the "loan shark" evil at the present time in nearly the same way that they solved it seven centuries ago.

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

Word Value for loan-shark
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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