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shark baitnoun [mass noun]1Food suspended in the sea to attract sharks for hunting or photography: the boatman cut the engine and started throwing bloody entrails into the sea as shark bait...- As late as the 1950s seals were killed for shark bait.
- This contained the fish that was to be used as shark bait.
- There were a couple of other fish but I could see that this amount of shark bait was not going to last long.
1.1Australian / NZ informal A person who swims alone or well out from the shore: the waters are quite shallow, allowing shark bait to wander out a good distance...- Fear of becoming shark bait seems to be widespread among new divers.
- Awakened and nursed back to health, the stranger can't remember anything about himself: not his name, not his background, not how he came to be shark bait.
- People acted surprised that I could swim; they called me "shark bait" because of my white skin.
1.2 informal A person who is vulnerable to being abused or taken advantage of: we turn them into pure shark bait by removing the one protection they have she becomes shark bait for the high-profile lawyer...- Fortunately or unfortunately, we're stuck this year watching the shark bait that is the Miami Dolphins.
- If you don't have that DNA, you're kind of shark bait.
- He sometimes tells the story to high school students, and jokes that he could have easily ended up as shark bait because of the bad choices he made.
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