card shark

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

   Synonymscardsharpcard sharpcardsharpercard sharpersharpersharpiesharpy

   Broadercard playerswindler

Questions about card shark

What does card shark mean?

card shark means "a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games".

What is another word for card shark?

Close synonyms include cardsharp, card sharp, cardsharper, card sharper, sharper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is card shark a common word?

card shark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.