Sharktopus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of lusca; a shark-headed creature with tentacles; a Bahamian folkloric sea monster recast in U.S. pop culture pulp fiction US

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lusca

Etymology

Blend of shark + octopus, from being a half-shark/half-cephalopod sea monster

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