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It is typically used to describe a person who is skilled at playing cards, often with a connotation of cheating or trickery. Example: "He was known as a card sharp, always managing to win big at the poker table."
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(Image: Card Sharp by Rob, via Flickr).
Half card sharp, half Gypsy, she always finds another game.
Camillus de Lellis was an Italian mercenary soldier, a card sharp and con man.
Hank is a little like a professional card sharp who complains that ordinary players are becoming too mistrustful.
The older of the pair, Sport, is a card sharp, pool shark and dice-throwing "hustler supreme".
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But Cromwell, the card sharper, plays a subtle game.
Nobody is what they seem in Nikolai Gogol's comedy of card sharps and confidence tricksters.
But when O'Leary told Willy, who ran an unofficial school for card sharps, of Kray's attachment, he reacted badly.
Among the cheap plastic toys for sale and the card sharps attempting to scam the unsuspecting, the frozen human statues hold court.
More impressively, he visits the World Poker Tour and, instead of winning it by using magic, wows the card sharps with some sleight of hand of his own.
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