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shark bite

shark bite adjective: having a hemline that curves inward in a deep, symmetrical vee.

shark bite: having a hemline that curves inward in a deep, symmetrical vee
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Adjective

shark bite (not comparable)

  1. Having a hemline that curves inward in a deep, symmetrical vee.
    • She'd changed her long-sleeved shirt three times before settling on a paisley print one with a shark bite hem.2018, Sonya Weiss, The Firefighter's Perfect Plan, unnumbered page
    • She didn't look like the other nurses, with her red shark-bite top, impractical heels, and frosted Bardot bun.2018, Lina Chern, "Filigree", Black Fox Literary Magazine, Winter 2018, pages 96-97

shark bite meaning in Tamil

shark bite in Tamil

சுறாக்கடி

Forms of shark bite

alternative formshark-bite
alternative formsharkbite

Origin of shark bite

From the resemblance of the hemline to an object which has had a large chunk bitten off by a shark.

Questions about shark bite

What does shark bite mean?
Shark bite means having a hemline that curves inward in a deep, symmetrical vee.
What is shark bite in Tamil?
Shark bite in Tamil is சுறாக்கடி. See Shark bite meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shark bite?
Shark bite is an adjective.

Words near shark bite in the dictionary

  1. shark bait
  2. shark baiter
  3. shark baiters
  4. Shark Bay
  5. Shark Bay mallee
  6. shark bite
  7. shark catfish
  8. shark catfishes
  9. Shark Creek
  10. shark fin
  11. shark fin soup

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shark bite (page history and authors); shark bite (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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