Usually means: Predatory fish, often large, toothed.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. shark: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shark: Merriam-Webster
  3. shark, shark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shark: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shark: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shark, shark: Wordnik
  8. shark: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shark: Wiktionary
  10. shark: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shark: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shark: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shark: Dictionary.com
  14. shark: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shark: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Shark: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shark: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shark: Rhymezone
  20. shark: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shark: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shark: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. shark: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Shark: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  26. shark: FreeDictionary.org

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shark: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Shark (cipher), shark: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shark (cipher), shark: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SHARK: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shark, shark: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Shark: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shark: Backgammon

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See sharked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shark)

noun:  (ichthyology, countable) Any scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
noun:  (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
noun:  (countable) Various other fishes that resemble true sharks in appearance and/or behaviour:
noun:  (inexact) A ghost shark, also called a chimaera (any fish in order Chimaeriformes)
noun:  (inexact) A spiny shark (any extinct fish in the paraphyletic grade †Acanthodii, which is also considered a class.)
noun:  A freshwater shark.
noun:  Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
noun:  Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
noun:  An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
noun:  A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
noun:  A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
noun:  (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
noun:  (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
verb:  (rare) To fish for sharks.
verb:  (UK, university slang) Of a university student who is not a fresher: to engage in sexual activity with a fresher, or to be at a bar or club with the general intention of engaging in such activity.
noun:  Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
noun:  (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
noun:  (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
noun:  (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
noun:  A person that excels in a particular field.
noun:  (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
noun:  (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
verb:  (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.
verb:  (obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

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