Dictionary Entry
shark
shark is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive/intransitive verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive/intransitive verb
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
- 2transitive/intransitive verb
A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
- 3transitive/intransitive verb
Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
- 4transitive verb
To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
- 5intransitive verb
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
- 6intransitive verb
To live by shifts and stratagems.
- 7noun
any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- 8noun
a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
"a card shark"
- 9noun
a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- 10verb
hunt shark
- 11verb
play the shark; act with trickery
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