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loansharked

loansharked is the simple past and past participle of loanshark.

Meaning of loanshark

Verb

loanshark (third-person singular simple present loansharks, present participle loansharking, simple past and past participle loansharked)

  1. To commit usury (to loan money at an excessive rate of interest), especially if collecting under threat of violence.

Questions about loansharked

What is loansharked the simple past and past participle of?
Loansharked is the simple past and past participle of loanshark.

Words near loansharked in the dictionary

  1. loanlands
  2. loanmonger
  3. loanmongers
  4. loans
  5. loanshark
  6. loansharked
  7. loansharking
  8. loansharks
  9. loanshift
  10. loanshifted
  11. loanshifting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loansharked (page history and authors); loanshark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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