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loan shark

noun as in lender charging much interest

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Vincent Asaro was also recorded telling CW-1 about collecting $30,000 on a loan-shark debt only for Di Fiore to demand half.

Vincent Asaro is also charged with joining co-defendants Ragano and Jack Bonventre in seeking to collect on loan-shark debts.

Ferreira has since opened up a pet shop, borrowing money from a loan shark, who apparently “took pity on her,” Machado says.

Then, determined to get something out of the policy, he had gone to a loan-shark.

A loan-shark does not lose much time in matters of this sort.

Then the loan shark sends in a statement of the account, and, if the manufacturer complains, begins to show his teeth.

"Say, five hundred dollars," the loan shark generously offered.

He had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to loan shark, such as: moneylender, shylock, and usurer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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