Usually means: Lender charging excessive interest rates.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Shylock:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. shylock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shylock: Merriam-Webster
  3. Shylock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shylock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Shylock: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Shylock, shylock: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shylock: Wordnik
  8. Shylock, shylock: Wiktionary
  9. Shylock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Shylock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Shylock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Shylock: Dictionary.com
  13. shylock: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Shylock (disambiguation), Shylock (musical), Shylock (play), Shylock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Shylock: Rhymezone
  16. Shylock, Shylock: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. shylock: FreeDictionary.org
  18. shylock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. shylock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shylock: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shylock: A Word A Day
  2. shylock: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shylock (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. shylock, shylock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Shylock: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See shylocking as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.]

Similar:
loanshark, loan shark, shark, usurer, shaver, handshaker, shonky, jackleg, shover, sharker, more...

Opposite:
philanthropist, benefactor, humanitarian

Phrases:
Operation Shylock, more...

Adjectives:
old, good, new, poor, modern, veritable, sympathetic, regular, comic, bad, rational
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Similar:
loanshark, loan shark, shark, usurer, shaver, handshaker, shonky, jackleg, shover, sharker, more...

Opposite:
philanthropist, benefactor, humanitarian

Phrases:
Operation Shylock, more...

Adjectives:
old, good, new, poor, modern, veritable, sympathetic, regular, comic, bad, rational



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