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loan shark - 2 dictionary results

loan shark

–noun Informal.
a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.

Origin:
1900–05, Americanism
loan shark  
n.   Informal
One who lends money at exorbitant interest rates, especially one financed and supported by an organized crime network.
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