sharklike
adjEtymology From shark + -like.
1
Similar to a shark; like a shark
- They wallowed lazily, nibbling bits of sea grass, their dorsal fins sometimes cutting through the water, sharklike.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 125:
- The first reference to the shark is lost in antiquity; there is an aboriginal drawing in Australia that shows a sharklike creature in the act of eating a man.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 14:
2
Similar to that of a shark.
- a sharklike grin; sharklike teeth; a sharklike frenzy
- Derived terms
- unsharklike