The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shark \Shark\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sharked; p. pr. & vb. n. Sharking.]
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To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.
--Bp. Earle. To live by shifts and stratagems.
--Beau. & Fl.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: shark)
Usage examples of "sharked".
Flights of rotors sharked through the sky, and circled, and sank, as they dropped onto the flat tops of the towers or on the barge pads moored on the river.
At the corner a yellow cab sharked to a halt and Doris Arthur climbed out of it.
For in their succourless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have dared.
For in their succorless emptyhandedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have dared.
He knows I’ve sharked in Big D and up in Chicago, and he knows I’ve sent people looking for high-end loans to Sam Giancana.