shylock
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Is shylock a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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What is the meaning of shylock?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (US, figurative, now offensive) A loan shark; a usurer.Examples: "Eventually, their gambling debts grow so big that they are cut off from making any more bets, eliminating the chance that they can make enough money to satisfy their shylocks."; "If a guy got into hock with several shylocks from different crews and was unable to keep up with his weekly payments, a sit-down would have to be called with all of the shylocks involved and their respective capos."; "After Caspian's father killed his credit lines at all the big casinos, he ran up a six-figure tab with a couple of shylocks in Miami, then couldn't make the vig."USfigurativelyoffensive
2. (offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Jewish descent.Synonyms: heeb, Hymie, kike, sheeny, Yidethnicoffensiveslur
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, US, now offensive) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest.Examples: "I wanted to know whether shylocking is a legal business or not, and if it is legal, under which Act does it operate?"; "When you've accumulated a good stash of money, you may want to go into the nightclub business, or shylocking. Shylocking is free. There is no ten percent vig on loan sharking."; "Lori said it sounded outright felonious, but Dad said all he was doing was outsmarting the fat-cat bank owners who shylocked the common man by charging usurious interest rates."USintransitiveoffensive
name (English)
1. (fiction) A moneylender (Jewish stereotype) in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary