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cardplayer

American  
[kahrd-pley-er] / ˈkɑrdˌpleɪ ər /

noun

  1. a person who plays cards.


Etymology

Origin of cardplayer

First recorded in 1580–90; card 1 + player

Example Sentences

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As a cardplayer, Kijek was a scratch, a legend at gin but even more partial to “pitch,” the working man’s rhapsody of high, low, jack and game.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 29, 2020

“Really?” she said, not paying her full attention because the cardplayer was sending her his look, which was one not of supplication but of command.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2013

In the evenings, after the supper dishes had been cleared away, Annie Meany, an insatiable cardplayer, usually organized a family game of euchre around the dining-room table.

From Time Magazine Archive

But like any smart cardplayer, Bush has no intention of showing his hand.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a fisherman and a hunter, a cardplayer and a theater-lover, a frequenter of pubs and a successful businessman.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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