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SHARPY

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• SHARPY (noun)
The noun SHARPY has 2 senses:

1. an alert and energetic person
2. a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games

Familiarity information: SHARPY used as a noun is rare.

• SHARPY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An alert and energetic person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

busy bee; eager beaver; live wire; sharpie; sharpy

Hypernyms ("sharpy" is a kind of...):

actor; doer; worker (a person who acts and gets things done)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sharpy"):

goffer; gopher (a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

card shark; card sharp; card sharper; cardsharp; cardsharper; sharper; sharpy; sharpie

Hypernyms ("sharpy" is a kind of...):

card player (someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games)

chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)

"All roads lead to Rome."
(English proverb)
"It is good for somebody as well as bad for someone else."
(Bengali proverb)
"Send a wise man and don't advise him."
(Arabic proverb)
"What good serve candle and glasses, if the owl does not want to see."
(Dutch proverb)

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Meaning of defrauder
Pronunciation of gouger
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