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loan shark noun a person who loans money privately with usurious interest rates and criminal collection procedures UK, 1905- And those Monday loan sharks, the six-for-five boys, who make a fine art of collection. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 5, 1953
- I remember once in Chicago when I was working for a loan shark, a very tough outfit, incidentally. — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, p. 54, 1954
- Contempt of court, refused to testify before New Jersey State Commission of Investigation on loan-shark activities, sixty days, in and out. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 141, 1985
- You have to understand the loan shark’s in business the same as anybody else. — Get Shorty, 1995
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