Usually means: Lending money at exorbitant rates.
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  1. shylocking: Merriam-Webster
  2. shylocking: Wiktionary
  3. shylocking: Dictionary.com
  4. Shylocking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. shylocking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shylock)

noun:  (US) A loan shark; a usurer.
noun:  (offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Jewish descent.
verb:  (intransitive, US) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest.
noun:  (fiction) A moneylender (Jewish stereotype) in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of shylock [(US) A loan shark; a usurer.]
▸ Also see shylock


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