- a large sea fish with very sharp teeth and a pointed fin on its back. There are several types of shark, some of which can attack people swimming.
- a fatal shark attack
- The boat went down in shark-infested waters off the coast of South Africa.
- The dark shapes of half a dozen sharks circled beneath the boat.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- killer
- man-eating
- attack somebody
- bite somebody
- feed
- …
- attack
- fin
- tooth
- …
- (informal, disapproving) a person who is dishonest in business, especially somebody who gives bad advice and gets people to pay too much for something see also loan sharkTopics Businessc2
Word Originsense 1 late Middle English: of unknown origin.sense 2 late 16th cent.: perhaps from German Schurke ‘worthless rogue’, influenced by shark, the animal.
Idioms
See shark in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryjump the shark
- (used especially about a television series, etc.) to include something that is very hard to believe as an attempt to keep people watching, usually a sign that the show is not as good as it used to be
- Has the show finally jumped the shark?
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