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• comparative of sharp.

sharper

American  

[shahr-per] / ˈʃɑr pər /

noun

Slang.

• sharpers
  plural

1. a shrewd swindler.

2. a professional gambler.

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sharper British  

/ ˈʃɑːpə /

noun

1. a person who cheats or swindles; fraud

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sharpers
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of sharper

First recorded in 1560–70; sharp + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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sharper sharpers

The detention of one of the country's most prominent former commanders, Lt Gen Peter Elwelu, has brought the crackdown into sharper focus.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Olfactory battle lines become even sharper in wartime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nowhere is the uncertainty sharper than at JPL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

And once you swallow that bitter truth, it’ll be much easier to take a sharper eye to their content, which seems endless.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

She made me feel I was that much sharper than the others, and she really was wonderfully funny.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Among the marks and sharpers — and sometimes one person is both — there are heroes and villains.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

Soon they, shrewd sharpers, were betting on each other's spelling prowess.

From Time Magazine Archive

While authorities debated who should raid the gang's headquarters, the sharpers fled with 10,000 printed letters yet unmailed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those on the ground could see very little; they knew even less about the progress of the matches than the wet sharpers at Epsom Downs knew about the Derby.

From Time Magazine Archive

Notwithstanding the enough-and-to-spare that I’ve got, sir, they stung me, these sharpers, through a lot of poor folks who couldn’t afford even a nettle prick.

From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance

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