Thesaurus: shark

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1. v. t. & i. Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
2. v. t. & i. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
3. v. t. & i. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
4. v. t. To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
5. v. i. To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
6. v. i. To live by shifts and stratagems.
7. n. any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
8. n. a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
9. n. a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
10. v. play the shark; act with trickery
11. v. hunt shark