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shylocking noun the illegal loan business US, 1948- Loan shark rackets, or shylocking as it is called on the docks, follow the same terrorizing methods. — Hendrik De Leeuw, Underworld Story, p. 297, 1955
- “There’s all kinds of angles,” he says, a little impatient with me. “Shylocking, slot machines, maybe some whores” — Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, p. 117, 1962
- The first of these was “shylocking,” or the loan shark racket—the lending of money at high interest rates[.] — Peter Maas, The Valachi Papers, p. 165, 1968
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