Sekirov Dictionary

land-shark

verb 3
land shark noun 1
forms 4

verb3

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To engage in land-sharking; to rapaciously acquire large amounts of land in order to sell it off at extremely high profits.
- The honorable member took up the land question because it was popular, but at one time he land-sharked the country right and left. — 1886
•
To sell (someone) land at an exorbitant price.
- In the District of Victoria, for instance, if a man wished to obtain possession of a section near his own he could not get it there; and if he came to Adelaide he was land-sharked. — 1867
•
To move along the ground in a sinuous fashion similar to the way a shark swims.
- Staffer Mark Hoyer (riding a Suzuki Hayabusa for unfair, incoherent contrast) and I would land-shark our way through the mountain roads near Mount Palomar for a full day of riding. — 2000

land shark noun1

Any shark-like creature that dwells on land.

forms

land-sharked · land-sharking · land-sharks · land sharks

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