SHYLOCK


Meaning of SHYLOCK in English

[shy.lock] n 1 cap: the Jewish usurer and antagonist of Antonio in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

2: an extortionate creditor: loan shark

[2]shylock vi (ca. 1934): to lend money at high rates of interest "expose of systematic thievery ... ~ing, and murder --Current Biog."

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