cardplayer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cardplayer
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
But like any smart cardplayer, Bush has no intention of showing his hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the first program, Ross got his work done without resorting to brutality and heman seductions; he impersonated a millionaire gambler in an effort to trap a crooked cardplayer.
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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