cardsharp
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- cardsharping noun
Etymology
Origin of cardsharp
Example Sentences
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Intricate pre-plotted plays befuddle defences with a blizzard of runners, while they shift the ball with a cardsharp's speed and dexterity.
From BBC
But their plan to create an army of South American cardsharps had a fatal flaw: Neither of them spoke Spanish.
From New York Times
We meet newly married Minna, the daughter of German immigrants, and her husband, Robert, a police officer more used to dealing with cattle thieves and cardsharps than lost boys.
From Washington Post
Watch her closely, the way you might watch the hands of a fast-dealing cardsharp, and be rewarded: a perfect, tiny can-you-believe-this eye roll here, a feline smile melting into laughter there.
From Seattle Times
He lived in his own, strange world populated by hobos, French Canadians, cardsharps, trappers, a pig with a wooden leg, farmers, hooligans, and, for reasons no one will ever understand, Frank Stallone.
From Washington Post
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