Synonyms for sharper
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Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Card sharp
card sharp, sharpie, card shark, sharpy, cardsharper rare
Other
sharpster informal
Definitions
- n. 1
A swindler; a cheat; a professional gambler who makes his living by cheating.
Forms
- Plural
- sharpers → sharpies, cardsharpers, swindlers, sharks…
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A sharper is one who cheats by sharp practice, as in playing at cards or staking what he can not pay. Perhaps you 'll think I act the same As a sly sharper plays his game.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
By length
- 4 letters
- spiv
- 5 letters
- shark1, cheat1
- 6 letters
- sharpy2
- 7 letters
- sharpie2, shyster2
- 8 letters
- swindler3, chiseler
- 9 letters
- trickster2, chiseller, sharpster
- 11 letters
- cardsharper
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sharpy2 = 2 syllables).