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loan shark

noun

, Informal.

loan shark

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Lost wages and dislocation had pushed many Sonoma residents into taking on debilitating debt from loan sharks.

One 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.

Vincent Asaro was also recorded telling CW-1 about collecting $30,000 on a loan-shark debt only for Di Fiore to demand half.

Vincent Asaro is also charged with joining co-defendants Ragano and Jack Bonventre in seeking to collect on loan-shark debts.

Ferreira 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.

A loan-shark does not lose much time in matters of this sort.

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.

He had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt.

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