sharper

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscardsharpcard sharpcardsharpercard sharpersharpiesharpycard shark

   Broadercard playerswindler

Other forms of sharper

plural

sharpers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sharper

What does sharper mean?

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

How many syllables are in sharper?

sharper has 2 syllables: shar-per. The stress falls on "shar". In IPA it is /ˈʃɑɹpɚ/.

What is another word for sharper?

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

sharper is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.