Shark vs. Wolf

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.

Sharknoun

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

Sharknoun

A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.

Sharknoun

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

Sharknoun

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

Sharknoun

A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

Sharkverb

(rare) To fish for sharks.

Sharkverb

(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.

Sharkverb

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

Sharkverb

To live by shifts and stratagems.

Sharkverb

(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Sharknoun

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

Sharknoun

A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.

Sharknoun

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

Sharkverb

To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Sharkverb

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

Sharkverb

To live by shifts and stratagems.

Sharknoun

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

Sharknoun

a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

Sharknoun

a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways;

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.

Wolfnoun

The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.

Wolfnoun

A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

Wolfnoun

(music) A wolf tone or wolf note.

Wolfnoun

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

Wolfnoun

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

Wolfnoun

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Wolfnoun

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

Wolfnoun

A willying machine.

Wolfverb

(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

Wolfverb

To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

Wolfverb

(intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Wolfnoun

Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

Wolfnoun

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

Wolfnoun

Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

Wolfnoun

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Wolfnoun

An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

Wolfnoun

The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

Wolfnoun

A willying machine.

Wolfnoun

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

Wolfnoun

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

Wolfnoun

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

Wolfnoun

a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

Wolfnoun

a cruelly rapacious person

Wolfverb

eat hastily;

Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and gray wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise non-domestic/feral subspecies.