A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.
Synonyms
Examples for "sharper"
Examples for "sharper"
1
It should mean sharper images and clearer sound: progress, in other words.
2
A sharper-definition option, known as 4K, is planned for later this year.
3
But while screen resolutions kept getting sharper, resolution independence never quite came.
4
The cold outside felt sharper than it had a few minutes ago.
5
Recently, however, the whole affair was pulled into sharper, more subjective focus.
1
Foot by foot Frank found himself nearing the stern of the sharpie.
2
Suppose you tell us, in a whisper now, what brought you aboard that sharpie.
3
So they began preparations for breakfast, Frank keeping an eye on the sharpie meanwhile.
4
Conrad hauled the sharpie to the water's edge and lashed the sail-bag to the foredeck.
5
After a bit, I'm going to take the dinghy and paddle over to that sharpie.
1
And suddenly infinitude closed up like a losing hand folding in a cardsharp's grasp.
2
Sorak walked over to where the cardsharp's body lay, and nudged it with his foot.
3
He was voted best cardsharp, to his mother's shame.
4
He shuffled his little deck like a cardsharp.
5
The first time, I saved him from being cheated by a cardsharp in a Tyrian gaming house.
1
He was probably engaged to be married or else a cardsharper.
2
A man once said, wanting to annoy me, that I have the face of a cardsharper.
3
In any case, he was not a cardsharper, a swindler, a professional medium, or a spy.
4
Lovel knew him for one Bedloe, a led-captain and cardsharper, whom he had himself employed on occasion.
5
He knows a Tula cardsharper, but ask him whether he knows Semiradsky, Tchaykovsky, or Solovyov the philosopher-he'llshake his head....
1
Sharpies and wet-erase markers dry on the surface within ten seconds.
2
Seattle was a port town full of sailors, hard-luck transients, and been-around-the-world sharpies.
3
Good-night, dear Sharpy; don't scold; I will be good, and get into bed.'
4
Now these old-line agency fellows are not dummies; they're sharpies.
5
The rig reminds me of some of the sharpies they use on the Connecticut coast.
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.
1
I'd come back from Ireland hot-wired to sense disaster; he'd come back a card shark.
2
In the second part, Doc, a card shark, talks about how he tricks people at cards.
3
He is a booze fighter and a card shark and a lot of other unscriptural things.
4
I hear you're quite the card shark.
5
The World Series of Poker attracts every grizzled card shark and optimistic internet amateur to Las Vegas.
1
He may be a card sharper himself.
2
I looked upon Mr. Bundercombe as a card sharper of the ordinary type, and I simply blamed myself for having introduced him to my friends.
3
You're nothing more nor less than common card sharpers.
4
I'd rather be a Three- Card Sharper than a barrister; I'd rather sell cat's-meat in the streets.
5
The card sharpers were treated like honest people.
6
Unfortunately, however, there is a very easy means by which card sharpers manage the thing to perfection.
7
It won't be long before we arrive at Buenos Ayres, and then we won't be bothered with card sharpers or anybody else but-
8
'Regular right down card sharpers and macemen,' said I to myself, as I watched the way in which they faked the pasteboards.
9
"Mr. Bundercombe," he said, "calling himself, by the by, Mr. Parker, as an American card sharper was of no interest to us.