loan shark
noun
: one who lends money to individuals at exorbitant rates of interest
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web His own publicist claimed the boxer worked a side job as a bill collector (i.e., leg breaker) for a Las Vegas loan shark operation. 
David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2022 Their old castmate Monterrey Jack has crossed the wrong loan shark, and Chip and Dale decide to bury their decades-old feud to do some rescuing and rangering. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022 Only a loan shark would dream of risking a dime on Ryan, as Keith would instantly have known. New York Times, 2 May 2022 Woo plays a promising boxer whose mother is in debt to a loan shark. Joan Macdonald, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022 When the handover goes terribly wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against the clock to get a hold of his missing product and find a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021 The story unfolds as Thanasis (Dimitris Lalos), a family man struggling to pay his debt to a local loan shark, joins forces with several townsmen to negotiate more favorable terms to settle their accounts. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Nov. 2021 When the loan shark ends up dead and a witness spotted someone in Eva’s checkered coat leaving the scene of the crime, Jessica has to prove her friend’s innocence. Emma Rubin, Vulture, 21 June 2021 Later, a loan shark named Sykes plots a kidnapping, which the animals dramatically try to foil. Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2020 See More
David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2022 Their old castmate Monterrey Jack has crossed the wrong loan shark, and Chip and Dale decide to bury their decades-old feud to do some rescuing and rangering. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022 Only a loan shark would dream of risking a dime on Ryan, as Keith would instantly have known. New York Times, 2 May 2022 Woo plays a promising boxer whose mother is in debt to a loan shark. Joan Macdonald, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022 When the handover goes terribly wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against the clock to get a hold of his missing product and find a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021 The story unfolds as Thanasis (Dimitris Lalos), a family man struggling to pay his debt to a local loan shark, joins forces with several townsmen to negotiate more favorable terms to settle their accounts. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Nov. 2021 When the loan shark ends up dead and a witness spotted someone in Eva’s checkered coat leaving the scene of the crime, Jessica has to prove her friend’s innocence. Emma Rubin, Vulture, 21 June 2021 Later, a loan shark named Sykes plots a kidnapping, which the animals dramatically try to foil. Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1905, in the meaning defined above
- 'tude
- 'twas
- 'twere
- 'twixt
- 've
- 'za
- (a) heaven on earth
- (a) method in/to one's madness
- (a) penny for your thoughts
- (a) quarter after
- (a) quarter of
- (a) quarter past
- (a) quarter to
- (all) by one's lonesome
- (all) choked up
- (all) for the best
- (all) in good time
- (all) in one whack
- (all) round the year
- (all) the best
- (all) the livelong day
- (all) the more so
- (all) the rage
- (and) not before time (too)
- (as) American as apple pie