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sharkette en · NOUN

Etymology

From shark (“someone who exploits others”) + -ette (suffix forming female equivalents).

Meanings

1. (informal, slang) An exploitative woman.
   • Cass's lips curved in a full - fledged grin this time. Maybe Mercedes's little sharkette had some plain ordinary child in her, after all. 1995, Anne Marie Duquette, Finding Father, page 32:
   • Lorraine Lemoile, cat-eyed sharkette, always with eyes for Ducky. 2017, Bill Roorbach, The Girl of the Lake: Stories, page 128:
   • A sharp-eyed, flinty-voiced business sharkette. 2011, Robert Ward, The King of Cards, page 175:

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