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card shark

American  

noun

  1. an expert cardplayer.

  2. cardsharp.


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He also had a recurring role in HBO’s “Deadwood,” playing card shark Eddie Sawyer, and was a go-to consultant in Hollywood on all things magic, gambling and cards.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2021

An upstart card shark has a marathon game with the king of stud poker in 1930s New Orleans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019

In John Sayles’ 1984 movie The Brother From Another Planet, a card shark is riding a northbound A train that is about to make the 66-block jump from Midtown to Harlem.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2018

His mother had been born on the Six Nations Indian Reserve in southwestern Ontario; later in life he discovered that his birth father, whom he never met, had been a card shark and also Jewish.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2016

The rule recorded, however, the principal proceeded to participate in downtown card parties until he established a reputation, in the language of the boys, as a "card shark."

From Principles of Teaching by Adam S. Bennion

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