Meaning:
A predatory lender; one who makes high-interest loans to desperate people
Examples:
- We talked to a loan shark that Leo borrowed money from.
- Anyway, your business with a loan shark is a civil matter.
- What are you, some kind of loan shark?
- I mean, what's a loan shark supposed to do?
- I started working for that loan shark in order to survive.
- He was a loan shark, fleecing people with 30% interest rates.
- It was supposed to go to my obnoxious, pushy loan shark.
- He said he went to a loan shark.
- Couple of weeks later, Jerry said he was in trouble with a loan shark.
- So, you borrowed the money from a loan shark to make the deposit.