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A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
verb
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To fish for sharks.
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Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
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A sleazy and amoral lawyer
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An ambulance chaser.
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A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
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A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
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A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
verb
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To steal or obtain through fraud.
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To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
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To live by shifts and stratagems.
verb
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To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Examples of sharks in a Sentence
Sharks' teeth, shells and bamboo were formerly generally used as cutting instruments for shaving and surgical operations.
Sharks are found everywhere and are common round the north, though they rarely attack man.
This elaborate type of scolex appears to be an adaptation to grasp the spiral intestinal valve of sharks and rays.
The manganese nodules afford the most ample proof of the prodigious period of time which has elapsed since the formation of the red clay began; the sharks' teeth and whales' ear-bones which serve as nuclei belong in some cases to extinct species or even to forms derived from those familiar in the fossils from the seas of the Tertiary period.
Internally they are found to consist of a lamina twisted upon itself, and externally they generally exhibit a tortuous structure, produced, before the cloaca was reached, by the spiral valve of a compressed small intestine (as in skates, sharks and dog-fishes); the surface shows also vascular impressions and corrugations due to the same cause.
Besides chipped stone knives, the teeth of rodents, sharks, and other animals served an excellent purpose.
Many fish inhabited the Carboniferous seas and most of these were Elasmobranchs, sharks with crushing pavement teeth (Psammodus), adapted for grinding the shells of brachiopods, crustaceans, &c. Other sharks had piercing teeth (Cladoselache and Cladodus); some, the petalodonts, had peculiar cycloid cutting teeth.
The common dead are buried or exposed to sharks on the reefs; bodies of chiefs are exposed in the fork of a tree.
Sharks infest the estuaries.
Seals and sharks are also common in the waters of the Cape.
Sometimes the entrepreneurs leave empty-handed, while other times the Sharks are so interested in the ideas that a bidding war occurs.
Of the cartilaginous fishes, Chondropterygii, the true sharks and hammer-headed sharks, are numerous.
Filipino american men straight will impress budding card sharks.
Suzuki the husband adobo and sweating budding card sharks.
Most divers head straight for the north pinnacle where you can find schooling hammerhead sharks.
Obtained from the liver oil of sharks and from whale ambergris.
Occasionally two or more Sharks will invest in the same business, becoming partners.
As with most reality TV shows that feature a judging panel, the drama usually comes from the Sharks themselves.
Over a large part of the central Pacific, far removed from any possible land-influences or deposits of ooze, the red-clay region is characterized by the occurrence of manganese, which gives the clay a chocolate colour, and manganese nodules are found in vast numbers, along with sharks' teeth and the ear-bones and other bones of whales.
It's displays include shrimp, sharks, octopus, eels, rays and seals - with an Amazonian display including the deadly piranha.
Sharks teeth at Barton can be picked up from the foreshore making this location ideal for all the family.
His photo shoots are extremely intricate, involving dolphins, stingrays, and even sharks.
This mega resort features 11 pools, including two kids-only swimming areas, a movie theatre that shows three flicks a day for free, 35 restaurants, and a 97 acres waterscape, complete with sharks.
Reminiscent of West Side Story, the West High Sharks and East High Jets arrive at Cheer Camp Nationals.
Sparks and moves fly when Carson, leader of the West High Sharks falls for Penn, a member of the Easy High Jets.
Maria is the sister of the leader of a rival gang made up of first generation Puerto Rican immigrants, The Sharks.
The Jets and The Sharks are involved in a bitter struggle for control of their neighborhood.
If the shark tags someone before they touch the safe edge of the pool, they are caught, and now become one of the sharks for the next round.
Younger kids enjoy playing games like Marco Polo, Minnows or Sharks.
In each episode of Shark Tank, entrepreneurs approach a panel of five "Sharks" in order to present their businesses and request investment capital.
The "Sharks" are all multi-millionaires who have become very successful in their businesses.
As the entrepreneurs make their pitches, the Sharks ask questions and challenge the requests.
The five Sharks in the Shark Tank TV series are all highly successful, competitive, and driven to grow their wealth and business portfolios.
Also on board is Lisa Natanson, a biologist who is on hand to tag and release any sharks that are caught.
The two-note motif that signals the oncoming shark entered the pop culture lexicon and today it is nearly synonymous with all sharks, thanks to the power of Williams' music.
The entire business of the psychic tipster has faded rapidly without new news to feed the sharks.
You swim in the ocean, don't you ... or do you stay on the beach all the time to avoid the sharks?
His caution to her about the sharks hadn't discouraged her, though, as he had intended.
Most of the sharks lived in the sea continuously, but the ganoids frequenting the coastal waters appear to have migrated inland.
Sharks are caught in enormous numbers with hook and harpoon; the flesh is considered by some to have aphrodisiacal properties; the dried fins and tails are exported to China; the oil is used for smearing boats.
In the coral rock of the coast sea-baths are excavated, so that bathers may run no risk from sharks.
A two-edged weapon, of which the blade is of sharks' teeth, and a defensive armour of braided sennit, are also peculiar to the islands; a large adze, made of the shell of the Tridacna gigas (the largest bivalve known), was formerly used in the Carolines, probably by the old builder race.
The chief products for export are copra, tortoise-shell, mother-of-pearl, sharks' fins and trepang.
The only fossils of the clay are radiolaria, sharks' teeth and the ear-bones of whales, precisely those parts of the skeleton of marine creatures which are hardest and can longest survive exposure to sea-water.
If your father gets angry he'll make an ashtray of my shell, and will throw my flesh to the sharks.
For serious diving go to Rangiroa - one of the world's largest atolls with loads of sharks.
On out-going tides The Zoo has barracuda, reef sharks and eagle and manta rays.
The larger fish include humphead wrasse, schools of large batfish and small white-tip reef sharks.
Seafood The Qur'an states that everything from the sea is halal, including carnivores such as sharks.
In winter, groups of Sand Tiger sharks often congregate close to the large overhang on the southeast side.