land-shark
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To engage in land-sharking; to rapaciously acquire large amounts of land in order to sell it off at extremely high profits.
Intransitive verb
noun
Alternative form of landshark.
Example Sentences
- "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."