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Meanings of card sharp in English
A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.
Usage of card sharp in English
1
Plays the dialogue a like a card sharp palming an ace.
2
The card sharp still cursed furiously, and backed away.
3
Call suspected him of being a card sharp, but if so he was a careful card sharp.
4
He was a card sharp, all right.
5
And he stopped being a card sharp.
6
It turns out his real father was a card sharp who was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
7
He came upon a party of Tennesseeans whom a famous card sharp had inveigled and was flagrantly robbing.
8
Which is a card sharp, originally.
9
She looked at the leering card sharp whose mechanical voice was coming from the back of the machine and frowned.
10
From card sharp following the circus and sheet-writer to a bookmaker he graduated into bartender, into proprietor of a doggery.
11
Sophara Miris had mismatched eyes and skin the color of rosewood, fine aquamarine hair and the hands of a streetside card sharp.
12
He had been burglar, fancy bunco man, card sharp, art thief, dispatcher, engineer, bag man, envoy to the police, harbor thief, vault blaster.
13
The game between Mr. Redburn and the gambler progressed; the eyes of he whom we have just described were on the card sharp constantly.
14
Listen, Tom!-they'reSydney ducks, ticket-of-leavemen, short card sharps, and sneak thieves!
15
The town was overrun with card sharps, shysters, thieves, and murderers.
16
Thar's too many card sharps and gay gamboliers cavortin' about the town to please me.