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loan shark (plural loan sharks)
- Someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest, especially illegally. [1900[1]]
- Synonym: (offensive) shylock
- Hypernym: usurer
- Hyponym: Ah Long
money lender; usurer
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 大耳窿 (yue) (daai6 ji5 lung4-1), 阿窿 (aa3 lung4-1), 貴利 / 贵利 (gwai3 lei6-2)
- Mandarin: 高利貸者 / 高利贷者 (gāolìdàizhě), 阿窿 (ālóng)
- Danish: lånehaj c, ågerkarl c
- Dutch: woekeraar (nl)
- Finnish: koronkiskuri (fi), kiskuri (fi)
- French: usurier (fr) m, usurière (fr) f
- Galician: usureiro m, usureira f
- German: Kredithai (de) m, Wucherer (de) m, Wucherin (de) f
- Greek: τοκογλύφος (el) m or f (tokoglýfos)
- Hungarian: uzsorás (hu)
- Indonesian: rentenir (id), tengkulak (id), lintah darat (id)
- Italian: usuraio (it) m, usuraia f, strozzino (it) m (colloquial), strozzina (it) f
- Japanese: 高利貸し (ja) (こうりがし, kōrigashi)
- Korean: 고리대금업자(高利貸金業者) (goridaegeumeopja)
- Latin: toculiō m
- Macedonian: лихвар m (lihvar)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lånehai m, ågerkar (no) m, ågerkarl m
- Nynorsk: lånehai m, ågerkar m
- Polish: lichwiarz (pl) m, lichwiarka (pl) f
- Portuguese: agiota (pt) m or f
- Romanian: cămătar (ro) m
- Russian: ростовщи́к (ru) m (rostovščík), ростовщи́ца (ru) f (rostovščíca)
- Serbo-Croatian: lihvar (sh) m
- Spanish: usurero (es) m, usurera (es) f
- Swedish: lånehaj (sv) c
- Turkish: tefeci (tr), faizci (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: فائضجی (faʼizci)
- Ukrainian: позикова акула f (pozykova akula), кредитна акула f (kredytna akula)
- Vietnamese: người cho vay nặng lãi
- Volapük: (♂♀) vukan (vo), (♂) hivukan, (♀) jivukan
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loan shark (third-person singular simple present loan sharks, present participle loan sharking, simple past and past participle loan sharked)
- Alternative spelling of loanshark.
