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sharking
noun- among women, the practice of man-hunting; subsequently also used by men hunting women UK, 1999
Also used in the verb form “shark”. In 1999, in answer to the question “What are you doing tonight?” a professional Soho media-type in her mid-20s offered a non-verbal shorthand: she placed both hands palm to palm above her head in imitation of a shark’s fin. - NO SHARKING — The legend on a Foster’s Lager drinks mat, 2001
- This is meant to be a comedown trip, not a bleedin’ sharking one. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 57, 2002
- His [Augustine’s] struggle between promiscuity and monogamy [...] is summed up in the prayer he made, while still in his sharking phase, “God grant me the strength to be chaste ... Just not yet.” — Richard Herring, Talking Cock, p. 67, 2003
- I had to admit / That yeah, yeah you are fit / And yeah I do want it / But I stop sharkin’ for a minute to get chips and drinks. — Mike Skinner, Fit But You Know It, 2004
- the illegal loaning of money at extremely high interest rates US, 1974
- “What’s the business?” “Junkets and sharking,” the Greek said. — George Higgins, The Digger’s Game, p. 185, 1973
- He wore Air corps sunglasses, combed his hair into a gelatinous country pomp and tithed his pay and tithed the vigorish on his sharking. — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 293, 1974
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