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land-shark en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of landshark.
The 'supreme Legislature' might provide a remedy by dispossessing settlers by retrospective legislation, but 'once the whole country shall have been possessed by land-sharks, by those private purchasers from the natives', there would be huge practical difficulties in effecting any such dispossession.
2022, Ned Fletcher, The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi, page 390:They determined to drive the land-sharks out, let the consequences be what they might.
1881, History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, page 118:
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land-shark en · VERB
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To move along the ground in a sinuous fashion similar to the way a shark swims.
There's a few in the basement, including the Saturn V that land sharked last time I launched it.
2017, A.R. Moler, Inches of Trust:Brodeur and Vega land-sharked their way through the crowds, eventually finding their way to the front door.
2010, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Command And Conquer: Tiberium Wars: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.
2000, Cycle World - Volume 39, pages 2000-59:
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(intransitive) To engage in land-sharking; to rapaciously acquire large amounts of land in order to sell it off at extremely high profits.
The honorable member took up the land question because it was popular, but at one time he land-sharked the country right and left.
1886, Victoria. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 52, page 1019:With roll-top desks, back to back, they land-sharked their way to a fortune.
1952, The Chicago Jewish Forum - Volume 11, Issues 2-4, page 155:
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(transitive) To sell (someone) land at an exorbitant price.
Their cost is trifling in the East, and dear at interior stations in the West, where a soldier is "land-sharked" by traders at the rate of from $10 to $20 per month, and more if he be an opulent individual.
1871 May 6, Gashunts, “Cotton Versus Buckskin”, in The United States Army and Navy Journal, volume 8, number 39, page 603: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.
1867, South Australia. Parliament, Debates in the Houses of Legislature, page 27:
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