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shylock
noun- a person who illegally loans money at very high interest rates and often has violent collection procedures US, 1930
The allusion to Shakespeare’s usurious money-lender in The Merchant of Venice cannot be missed. - “I know a shylock that’ll give you a break if you tell him I sent you.” — Irving Shulman, Cry Tough, p. 127, 1949
- Hundreds are in the clutches of the loan-sharks in Maryland and the shylocks, who work their trade right in the government office buildings, exacting 100 percent interest for a one-month loan. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 72, 1951
- — American Speech, p. 306, December 1964: “Lingua Cosa Nostra”
- Then the Corleone family shylocks were barred from the waterfront piers. — Mario Puzo, The Godfather, p. 253, 1969
- We were trying all day to find some shylock so we could get the rest of the money to buy Silky’s jewelry. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 140, 1972
- You think that shylock is going to talk? — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 140, 1972
- And now he was in his fifties and the only blind shylock in the world. — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 100, 1972
- I do collection for Harry once in a while. Harry, or different shylocks call, they want me to lean on some guy. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 23, 1995
- in circus and carnival usage, the show’s office secretary US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 241, 1981
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