cardsharp

a person who cheats at card games: Keep your eyes closely on the cardsharp’s hands.

Not to be confused with:

card shark – an expert cardplayer: He was a card shark who played poker for a living.

card·sharp

(kärd′shärp′) also card·sharp·er (-shär′pər)

An expert in cheating at cards.

card′sharp′ing n.

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cardsharp

(ˈkɑːdˌʃɑːp) or

cardsharper

(Card Games) a professional card player who cheats

ˈcardˌsharping n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

card•sharp

(ˈkɑrdˌʃɑrp)

also card′sharp`er,

a person who cheats at card games.

Also called card′ shark`.

[1855–60, Amer.]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

cardsharp - a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games

card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy

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

chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, gouger - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Translations

χαρτοκλέφτης

cardsharp

[ˈkɑːdˌʃɑːp] N cardsharper [ˈkɑːdˌʃɑːpəʳ] N → fullero/a m/f, tahur m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cardsharp

[ˈkɑːdˌʃɑːp] n → baro

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw.

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David O'Meara's grand old campaigner has run some eye-catching races already this term and followed a good second to Cardsharp at York in May by finishing ninth in the Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot last time.

Take Fairyland and So Beloved to re-write the record books; RACING TRADER Bill Esdaile previews tomorrow's action at Newmarket, York and Ascot

At loo b Newmarket, CARDSHARP looks capable of bouncing back in the Group 3 Randox Health Criterion Stakes (3.15).

street smart; In association with Appleby's ace ready to bloom in the Northumberland Vase

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WRIGHT ONES

Lucky Deal - who was giving trainer Johnston a quick across-the-card treble following wins for Cardsharp at York and Elarqam at Goodwood - is now as low as 12-1 but 16-1 with Paddy Power, Betfair and William Hill for the Northumberland Plate at Newcastle at the end of the next month.

Hello Youmzain shocks Calyx to win the Sandy Lane Stakes at Haydock Park; Kevin Ryan's three-year-old ends Calyx's unbeaten record to land the Group Two contest and set himself up for Royal Ascot and the Commonwealth Cup

He is drawn in stall 16 with the benefit of the speedy Cardsharp alongside in 15.

Sand can storm home in Victoria Cup

Mark Johnston's top-weight Cardsharp heads 170 entries.

only call to make

Mark Johnston's Cardsharp and Roger Varian's pacey Laugh A Minute head a strong three-year-old squad in the race.

Stars headine bumper entry for Ayr Gold Cup; RACING

Craig can do this, despite not being a professional cardsharp (he can also spin a ball better than most dealers; you pick up a lot after 40 years) -- but his main weapon was always the numbers, indeed that's how he first became suspicious of the scammers, "because I looked at the analytics and the game margins didn't look right".

Logic, analysis and magical thinking: a life in casinos

Mark Johnston saddles Cardsharp for Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, while Godolphin bank on outsider Roussel, who was runner-up in the Windsor Castle at last year's meeting.

Dubai sextet chase Commonwealth Cup honours

4.25 (6f, PS31,190): 1, CARDSHARP (S De Sousa) 3-1; 2, Dancing Star 9-2; 3, Mythmaker 4-1.

RESULTS