loan shark
a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
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How to use loan shark in a sentence
Lost wages and dislocation had pushed many Sonoma residents into taking on debilitating debt from loan sharks.
Five days, 100 vaccine doses and a wildfire of conspiracy theories | Jose Del Real | May 28, 2021 | Washington PostOne 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.
China’s consumers are turning against the homegrown Big Tech giants they once revered | Grady McGregor | January 16, 2021 | FortuneVincent Asaro was also recorded telling CW-1 about collecting $30,000 on a loan-shark debt only for Di Fiore to demand half.
A Goodfellas Sequel: A True-Life Lufthansa Figure Comes to Court | Michael Daly | January 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTVincent Asaro is also charged with joining co-defendants Ragano and Jack Bonventre in seeking to collect on loan-shark debts.
A Goodfellas Sequel: A True-Life Lufthansa Figure Comes to Court | Michael Daly | January 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFerreira 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.
The Best Policy | Elliott FlowerA loan-shark does not lose much time in matters of this sort.
The Best Policy | Elliott FlowerThen the loan shark sends in a statement of the account, and, if the manufacturer complains, begins to show his teeth.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World | Clifton R. Wooldridge"Say, five hundred dollars," the loan shark generously offered.
The Bad Man | Charles Hanson TowneHe had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt.
Main Street | Sinclair Lewis
British Dictionary definitions for loan shark
informal a person who lends funds at illegal or exorbitant rates of interest
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