Lexic.us

Definition of Card shark

1. Noun. A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Card Shark

Literary usage of Card shark

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handy Guide for Beggars: Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity; Being by Vachel Lindsay (1916)
"The conductor had the lean frame, the tight jaw, the fox nose, the Chinese skin of a card-shark. He would have made a name for himself on the Spanish Main, ..."

2. Philip Dru: Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 by Edward Mandell House (1912)
"... are selected and the platform written and both are ' forced' upon the unsuspecting delegate, much as the card shark forced his cards upon his victim. ..."

3. The Flowery Republic by Frederick McCormick (1913)
"John Chinaman —the card-shark of Poverty Flat, the cook of the Union Pacific section-hands gang, the laundryman of Omaha, the stoker of Callao, ..."

4. History of the United States: Political, Industrial, Social by Charles Manfred Thompson (1917)
"The card shark with his "parson's coat and countenance" seemed to be as indispensable to a Mississippi River steamboat as was the bellowing 1 One English ..."

5. Leading Events of Wisconsin History: The Story of the State by Henry Eduard Legler (1898)
"... of the prospector's thrift often went into the coffers of the card shark. During the years when the lead mines were being developed the aggregation of ..."

6. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1920)
"If we desire to discourage "poker as an important feature" and the "card shark", we must give our men, especially our young men, some avenue of labor, ..."

7. Criminal Types by Vincent Myron Masten (1922)
"... while versatile in his limited sphere: meaning, for instance, that he is just enough of a card shark to flank a real captain at crooked dealing, ..."

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