Definitions for shark

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shark shark

Spelling: [shahrk]

IPA: /ʃɑrk/

Shark is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in shark (ahkrs).

Definitions for shark

noun

1. any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
2. a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
3. Informal. a person who has unusual ability in a particular field.

Idioms

1. jump the shark, Informal. to begin a decline in quality, popularity, relevance, etc., after reaching a peak:

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to obtain by trickery or fraud; steal.

verb (used without object)

1. Archaic. to live by shifts and stratagems.

Origin of shark

First recorded in 1560-70; origin uncertain

Examples for shark

The gentleman purchased the shark for a museum in Fleetwood.

The shark had apparently been harpooned at sea, and washed into the Humber.

For humans, shark Week is just a once-a-year sweeps event for the Discovery Channel.

This shark, I was told, had kept company with me as long as I had been in sight from the schooner.

Hey was down in the hold, having left me to take care of the shark.

Porter was convicted and shortly after sentenced to death by a judge who compared him to a shark in a feeding frenzy.

This makes me think that he must have been a shark, and not a whale, as the others assumed.

Though it appears convincing, the “evidence” presented in these shark Week documentaries is not real.

Her downfall came about, because for a second she forgot that to swim in the shark pool, you have to always act like a shark.

However, for sharks—and Tracy Jordan—every week is shark Week.