sharpie
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈʃɑrpi/
- Offensive
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tramposo
- If we had a popular election of the President this year, we would get the result that the Founding Fathers expressly wanted to guard against: some snake-tongued sharpie who would lie his way to the office by duping the ignorant masses.
Examples
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Who's the sharpie?
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After losing his money, he realized that the sharpie had used tricks to win the bet.
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With that name, he should be a rich sharpie, not a mackerel-snapper with a dying business.
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Only that he's a Broadway sharpie, a gambler.
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Everyone in the casino knew him as a sharpie who could deceive anyone at the poker table.
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The sharpie played confidently, knowing he had a few hidden cards up his sleeve.
Synonyms
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9.9
A person who cheats at card games to win money
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8.2
A person who is very good at playing cards and cheats to win
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9.3
A person who cheats at card games to win money
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8.8
A person who cheats at card games to win money
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9.6
A person who cheats at card games to win money from other players
A person who cheats at card games to win money
A person who cheats at card games to win money
How Dishonest
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sharpie for a cheating card player comes from the old slang sharp, meaning 'clever and dishonest', and is like sharper. So a sharpie is someone who uses clever tricks to win money.