sharks

Meaning of sharks

plural noun
  1. a long-bodied chiefly marine fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, a prominent dorsal fin, and toothlike scales. Most sharks are predatory, although the largest kinds feed on plankton, and some can grow to a large size.
  2. a small SE Asian freshwater fish with a tail resembling that of a shark, popular in aquaria.
  3. a light greyish-brown European moth, the male of which has pale silvery hindwings.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. (typically of a man at a social gathering) be in active pursuit of a sexual partner.
    as soon as he arrived he was sharking among the women

late Middle English: of unknown origin.

plural noun
  1. a person who unscrupulously exploits or swindles others.
    property sharks want to develop 200 acres around the site
  2. an expert in a specified field.
    a pool shark

late 16th century: perhaps from German Schurke ‘worthless rogue’, influenced by shark1.

Information about sharks

  • The singular form of sharks is: shark.
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Hyphenation of sharks

sharks

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • sharks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

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