Meaning of land-shark | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To move along the ground in a sinuous fashion similar to the way a shark swims.
2. To engage in land-sharking; to rapaciously acquire large amounts of land in order to sell it off at extremely high profits.
   intransitive
3. To sell (someone) land at an exorbitant price.
   transitive

Examples

“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.”

“Brodeur and Vega land-sharked their way through the crowds, eventually finding their way to the front door.”

“There's a few in the basement, including the Saturn V that land sharked last time I launched it.”

“The honorable member took up the land question because it was popular, but at one time he land-sharked the country right and left.”

“With roll-top desks, back to back, they land-sharked their way to a fortune.”

“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.”

“Their cost is trifling in the East, and dear at interior stations in the West, where a soldier is "land-sharked" by traders at the rate of from $10 to $20 per month, and more if he be an opulent individual.”

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