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  • noun Plural form of loan shark.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loan shark.

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Examples

  • The banks ought to be making money, the interest rates they have been charging and raising over the last couple of years are like loan sharks.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The banks ought to be making money, the interest rates they have been charging and raising over the last couple of years are like loan sharks.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Critics of the services say that they prey on people desperate for cash, and act like loan sharks.

    unknown title 2011

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