Land-shark

Quick meaning: Land-shark is a verb meaning To move along the ground in a sinuous fashion similar to the way a shark swims.

Meaning

To move along the ground in a sinuous fashion similar to the way a shark swims.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To engage in land-sharking; to rapaciously acquire large amounts of land in order to sell it off at extremely high profits.
2. (transitive) To sell (someone) land at an exorbitant price.
3. Alternative form of landshark.

Example Sentences

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

They determined to drive the land-sharks out, let the consequences be what they might.

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

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

Word Forms

• land-sharks
• land-sharking
• land-sharked

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