The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHARK
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More clues leading to the result SHARK
- Quiet refuge for animals and fish
- Shear predator
- Ferocious creature getting class finally to listen
- Dodgy character captures hearts in Channel Island
- Wheeler-dealer finding hotel in one of the Channel Islands
- Island refuge for hot swindler
- Island accommodating hotel for swindler
- Head to sea and listen for ocean predator
- Essential to punish Arkansas swindler
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What does SHARK mean?
SHARK noun- A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- To fish for sharks.
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A sleazy and amoral lawyer
- An ambulance chaser.
- A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- To steal or obtain through fraud.
- To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
- To live by shifts and stratagems.
- To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.