What does loan shark mean?

loan shark means "someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest".

What is another word for loan shark?

Close synonyms include usurer, moneylender, shylock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is loan shark a common word?

loan shark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

loan shark — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
Synonymsusurer moneylender shylock
Broaderlender shark

Questions about loan shark

What does loan shark mean?: loan shark means "someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest".
What is another word for loan shark?: Close synonyms include usurer, moneylender, shylock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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