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/kɑrd ʃˈɑrpər/ Listen

Card sharper

noun

A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games. Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy.

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"Card sharper" Quotes from Famous Books

... I think he's some kind of a confidence man who has adopted the respectable clothes of a minister to fool people. He may be a card sharper himself. Well, we won't have anything more to do with him. It won't be long before we arrive at Buenos Ayres, and then we won't be bothered with card sharpers or anybody ...

— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton

... game I was shocked to detect Mr. Bundercombe cheating. For Mrs. Delaporte's sake I conceived it best to try and hush up the matter entirely. 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. I accordingly made some excuse to terminate ...

— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim