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Noun: shark  shaa(r)k
  1. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
     
  2. A person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
     
  3. A person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
    "a card shark"
Verb: shark  shaa(r)k
  1. Play the shark; act with trickery
     
  2. Hunt shark

Derived forms: sharked, sharking, sharks

Type of: cheat, chisel, elasmobranch, expert, fish, offender, selachian, wrongdoer

Encyclopedia: Shark