card sharper

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscardsharpcard sharpcardsharpersharpersharpiesharpycard shark

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Questions about card sharper

What does card sharper mean?

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

What is another word for card sharper?

Close synonyms include cardsharp, card sharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie. 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 sharper a common word?

card sharper 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.