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English
Etymology
Blend of shark + octopus, from being a half-shark/half-cephalopod sea monster
Noun
sharktopus (plural sharktopuses or sharktopi)
- (US, fiction) Synonym of lusca; a shark-headed creature with tentacles; a Bahamian folkloric sea monster recast in U.S. pop culture pulp fiction