loan shark

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

Origin:
1900–05, Americanism

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loan shark
 
n
informal a person who lends funds at illegal or exorbitant rates of interest

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Example sentences
There may have never been so opportune a time to look a loan shark in the eye and tell him to take a hike.
And the best way is not to go to your local loan shark and borrow money with a promise to pay back in the next payday.
We as a nation should not normalize loan shark practices.
Even the risk of violence may be comparable between the legitimate sources of funding and the loan shark operations.
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