Meaning

2 senses
  1. (US, informal)The act or practice of shouting and yelling by a drill instructor at an enlistee on their first day of training.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shark, attack. An attack on a human or other animal by a shark.

Examples

16 sentences
  1. That was no ordinary shark attack.

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  2. Shark attacks are on the rise.

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  3. Tom lost an arm in a shark attack.

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  4. A shark attacked Tom.

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  5. Tom survived a shark attack.

    deTom hat einen Haiangriff überlebt.

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Forms

plural: shark attacks
Singularshark attack
Pluralshark attacks

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

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