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Значения термина cardshark на английском

A person who uses skill and deception to win at poker or other card games.

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        Examples for "cardsharp"
        Examples for "cardsharp"
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        And suddenly infinitude closed up like a losing hand folding in a cardsharp's grasp.
        The talisman
        2
        Sorak walked over to where the cardsharp's body lay, and nudged it with his foot.
        The outcast
        3
        He was voted best cardsharp, to his mother's shame.
        The prince of frogtown
        4
        He shuffled his little deck like a cardsharp.
        Perdido Street Station
        5
        The first time, I saved him from being cheated by a cardsharp in a Tyrian gaming house.
        The broken blade
        1
        I'd come back from Ireland hot-wired to sense disaster; he'd come back a card shark.
        Pasta Imperfect
        2
        In the second part, Doc, a card shark, talks about how he tricks people at cards.
        The new yorker
        3
        He is a booze fighter and a card shark and a lot of other unscriptural things.
        Sunny Slopes
        4
        I hear you're quite the card shark.
        The cardturner
        5
        The World Series of Poker attracts every grizzled card shark and optimistic internet amateur to Las Vegas.
        The Irish Times
        1
        Plays the dialogue a like a card sharp palming an ace.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The card sharp still cursed furiously, and backed away.
        Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of th...
        3
        Call suspected him of being a card sharp, but if so he was a careful card sharp.
        Lonesome dove
        4
        He was a card sharp, all right.
        One night stands & lost weekends
        5
        And he stopped being a card sharp.
        One night stands & lost weekends
        Использование термина cardshark на английском
        1
        Batista's dream of a Cuban music and gambling paradise was hindered by his homeland's notorious reputation as an unregulated haven for cardsharks and swindlers.
        The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...