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mudshark

mudshark is the alternative form of mud shark.

Meaning of mud shark

Noun

mud shark (plural mud sharks)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A nonblack person, usually a white woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men.
    • The courtships were called off. The guys all joked about it afterward, said Mr. Bloussé was a nigger-lover and a mud shark.2008, Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba, page 26
  2. Synonym of spiny dogfish.
    Synonyms:
    spiny dogfish

Verb

mudshark (third-person singular simple present mudsharks, present participle mudsharking, simple past and past participle mudsharked)

  1. (Internet, intransitive, rare) To engage in mudsharking.

Forms of mudshark

Noun
pluralmudsharks
Verb
third-person singular presentmudsharks
present participlemudsharking
past participlemudsharked
pastmudsharked

Origin of mudshark

From mud + shark.

Questions about mudshark

What does mudshark mean?
Mudshark means to engage in mudsharking.
What is mudshark the alternative form of?
Mudshark is the alternative form of mud shark.
What part of speech is mudshark?
Mudshark is a verb.
What is the past tense of mudshark?
The past tense of mudshark is mudsharked.

Words near mudshark in the dictionary

  1. muds out
  2. mudscape
  3. mudscapes
  4. mudscow
  5. mudscows
  6. mudshark
  7. mudsharked
  8. mudsharking
  9. mudsharks
  10. mudsill
  11. mudsills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mudshark (page history and authors); mud shark (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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