Definition of "shark" in İngilizce

noun

1. (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

   • The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, …. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.

2. (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.

3. (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.

4. A freshwater fish that resembles a true shark (Selachimorpha) in appearance or movement; a freshwater shark.

5. (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.

6. (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.

verb

1. (intransitive, rare) To fish for sharks.

2. (UK, university slang, mildly derogatory) Of a university student who is not a fresher (first-year undergraduate), and especially towards the start of the academic year:

noun

1. Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.

2. (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.

3. (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.

4. (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.

5. A person that excels in a particular field.

6. (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

verb

1. (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.

   • Shakespeare and others, Sir Thomas More (c. 1593) act 2, sc. 4: "Other ruffians...Would shark on you."

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.

verb

1. (obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.