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Definition of Card sharper
1. Noun. A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.
Exact synonyms: Card Shark, Card Sharp, Cardsharp, Cardsharper, Sharper, Sharpie, Sharpy
Generic synonyms: Card Player, Chiseler, Chiseller, Defrauder, Gouger, Grifter, Scammer, Swindler
Generic synonyms: Card Player, Chiseler, Chiseller, Defrauder, Gouger, Grifter, Scammer, Swindler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Card Sharper
Literary usage of Card sharper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1856)
"... discharge of a card-sharper from prison, to which hfl was sentenced, on the
ground that a railway carriage is not an " open end public place ;"* and the ..."
2. An Amiable Charlatan: By E. Phillips Oppenheim... with Illustrations by Will by Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1916)
"When we discovered, however, that, instead of being a professional card sharper,"
Captain Bannister continued, with emphasis, ..."
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