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sharkette

sharkette noun: an exploitative woman.

Noun

sharkette (plural sharkettes)

  1. (informal, slang) An exploitative woman.
    • Cass's lips curved in a full - fledged grin this time. Maybe Mercedes's little sharkette had some plain ordinary child in her, after all.1995, Anne Marie Duquette, Finding Father, page 32
    • A sharp-eyed, flinty-voiced business sharkette.2011, Robert Ward, The King of Cards, page 175

Forms of sharkette

pluralsharkettes

Origin of sharkette

From shark (“someone who exploits others”) + -ette (suffix forming female equivalents).

Questions about sharkette

What does sharkette mean?
Sharkette means an exploitative woman.
What part of speech is sharkette?
Sharkette is a noun.
What is the plural of sharkette?
The plural of sharkette is sharkettes.

Words near sharkette in the dictionary

  1. sharked
  2. sharked up
  3. sharker
  4. sharkers
  5. sharkes
  6. sharkette
  7. sharkettes
  8. Sharkey
  9. Sharkey County
  10. Sharkeys
  11. sharkfin

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