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loansharks

loansharks is the plural of loanshark.

loansharks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 loansharks

What is loansharks the plural of?
Loansharks is the plural of loanshark.

Words near loansharks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loansharks (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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