disapproval If you describe someone as a loan shark, you disapprove of them because they lend money to people and charge them very high rates of interest on the loan. One who lends money at exorbitant interest rates, especially one financed and supported by an organized crime network. someone who lends money at very high rates of interest and will often use threats or violence to get the money back
Committing the crime of being a loan shark, committing usury (loaning money at excessive rate of interest) especially when collecting under threat of violence