land-shark

To move along the ground in a sinuous fashion similar to the way a shark swims.

Staffer Mark Hoyer (riding a Suzuki Hayabusa for unfair, incoherent contrast) and I would land-shark our way through the mountain roads near Mount Palomar for a full day of riding.

Brodeur and Vega land-sharked their way through the crowds, eventually finding their way to the front door.

To engage in land-sharking; to rapaciously acquire large amounts of land in order to sell it off at extremely high profits.

The honorable member took up the land question because it was popular, but at one time he land-sharked the country right and left.

With roll-top desks, back to back, they land-sharked their way to a fortune.

To sell (someone) land at an exorbitant price.

In the District of Victoria, for instance, if a man wished to obtain possession of a section near his own he could not get it there; and if he came to Adelaide he was land-sharked.

Their cost is trifling in the East, and dear at interior stations in the West, where a soldier is "land-sharked" by traders at the rate of from $10 to $20 per month, and more if he be an opulent individual.

Alternative form of landshark.

They determined to drive the land-sharks out, let the consequences be what they might.

The 'supreme Legislature' might provide a remedy by dispossessing settlers by retrospective legislation, but 'once the whole country shall have been possessed by land-sharks, by those private purchasers from the natives', there would be huge practical difficulties in effecting any such dispossession.