sand shark

American  

noun

1. sand tiger.

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Etymology

Origin of sand shark

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

A sand shark passed over Mom’s head, swimming through the bubbles rising from her regulator.

From Literature

In New Mexico, Ken Pitts, a senior aquarist at the Albuquerque Aquarium, was nipped on the left arm by a sand shark as he fed fish in 2005, as reported by the Albuquerque Journal.

From Washington Times

Excepting one Real Housewives reality TV star – who said of her sand shark and her horn shark, Horney: “They’re my babies!” – every shark owner interviewed by the WSJ gave some justification about power.

From The Guardian

But the two Princeton graduate students weren’t trying to catch some sort of desert-dwelling dogfish or a literal “sand shark.”

From New York Times