Earlier variations of this vernacular term include "land shark" and "money shark."

Did the women's side miss the nine-time champion, Martina Navratilova, racing across the grass like a great land shark?

They were a couple of land sharks, as cold-blooded and predatory as any real sharks in any sea.

Local land sharks have encroached upon the site of mass killing and started cultivation.

Rippersnapper He transforms into a land shark.

Then he heard the land shark's steely whisper out- side the closet: "You still around, Randy?"

The wagon tracks left a plain trail on the rain-soaked earth, but that did not worry the land shark.

That way, we'll outsmart this land shark before he can block our plans.

I got a hunch we'll need to build up our strength for the showdown that's sure shaping up, with that land shark, Morgan.

The ponderous land shark was advancing slowly across the room toward him.