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  • noun Alternative spelling of loan shark..
  • verb To commit crimes as a loan shark/loanshark; to commit usury (to loan money at excessive rate of interest) especially if collecting under threat of violence.

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Examples

  • You really sense how they work as a kind of loanshark operation rather than an executive branch:

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • The USSR on the other hand had a three point plan that involved raping, killing, and looting as payback (with loanshark level interest) for everything that Germany did to them.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Dissonance 2009

  • The wealthy and violent gangster - he has made many millions of dollars as a loanshark and entrepreneur while serving as a hitman for three Gambino family bosses, according to court records - is not likely to consider any offer from the feds until Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon upholds the validity of the indictment against Watts.

    Jerry Capeci: Feds to Jackie Nose: Here's An Offer You Can't Refuse 2010

  • The defense attorney reminded jurors of the testimony of a minor prosecution witness -- Alite loanshark victim Joseph DeLuca, a former New York Mets employee who had been befriended by Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez -- and argued that what DeLuca did to Hernandez was exactly what Alite had done to Gotti, albeit on a much grander scale.

    Jerry Capeci: Junior Plays Hide and Seek as Gotti IV Goes to the Jury 2009

  • Several allegations, including messages from prison to mob cronies about guns and loanshark debts, as well as taking profits from real estate deals, were also on Hou's "Top 20 Reasons Gotti Never Withdrew."

    Jerry Capeci: Junior Plays Hide and Seek as Gotti IV Goes to the Jury 2009

  • Starbucks is really good stuff but it pisses me off you need a loanshark or credit card to buy something there.

    World’s Worst Interview: Charlie Stella Interviewed by Victor Gischler 2009

  • In the meantime, however, I'd receive more sympathy if I came out as being a serial-killing neo-Nazi paedophile loanshark and human trafficker.

    Archive 2009-01-01 juliette 2009

  • In the meantime, however, I'd receive more sympathy if I came out as being a serial-killing neo-Nazi paedophile loanshark and human trafficker.

    Single Right Female juliette 2009

  • Like the prototypical garage rock anthem, this one has a happy little keyboard riff dancing on top of a drum kit getting worked over like a loanshark deadbeat.

    Best Music of the Year 2007

  • One of Giancana's most fearsome underbosses, _Anthony "Icepick Tony" Iannone_ (born 1917), serves as the Chicago Mob's liaison to independent bookmaker-loanshark factions.

    American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995

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