Shark vs. Boat

Sharknoun

A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

Boatnoun

A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.

Sharknoun

Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.

Boatnoun

(poker slang) A full house.

Sharknoun

A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.

Boatnoun

A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

‘a stone boat;’; ‘a gravy boat’;

Sharknoun

(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.

Boatnoun

(chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

Sharknoun

(informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).

Boatnoun

The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

Sharknoun

A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

Boatverb

(intransitive) To travel by boat.

Sharkverb

(rare) To fish for sharks.

Boatverb

(transitive) To transport in a boat.

‘to boat goods’;

Sharkverb

(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.

Boatverb

(transitive) To place in a boat.

‘to boat oars’;

Sharkverb

To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Boatnoun

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

Sharkverb

To live by shifts and stratagems.

Boatnoun

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

Sharkverb

(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Boatnoun

A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

Sharknoun

Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.

Boatverb

To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

Sharknoun

A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.

Boatverb

To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

Sharknoun

Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.

Boatverb

To go or row in a boat.

‘I boated over, ran my craft aground.’;

Sharkverb

To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Boatnoun

a small vessel for travel on water

Sharkverb

To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

‘Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.’;

Boatnoun

a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce

Sharkverb

To live by shifts and stratagems.

Boatverb

ride in a boat on water

Sharknoun

any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

Boat

A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size, shape, cargo or passenger capacity, or its ability to carry boats. Small boats are typically found on inland waterways such as rivers and lakes, or in protected coastal areas.

Sharknoun

a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

Sharknoun

a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways;

‘a card shark’;

Sharkverb

play the shark; act with trickery

Sharkverb

hunt shark

Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the rays.