SHARPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sharper mean? 

• SHARPER (noun)
  The noun SHARPER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SHARPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHARPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

card shark; card sharp; card sharper; cardsharp; cardsharper; sharper; sharpie; sharpy

Hypernyms ("sharper" is a kind of...):

card player (someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games)

chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)

 Context examples 

Her teeth are some sharper, and at times her eyes are more hard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

New images of dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the cratered surface of this mysterious world in sharper detail than ever before.

(Bright Spots Shine in Newest Dawn Ceres Images, NASA)

Ever keener and sharper was the deadly pain which shot like a red-hot arrow through his side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hoist in your boat, I said,” he repeated, this time in sharper tones as they hesitated to do his bidding.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was nothing alluring in the pictures she drew, and he was aware of a dull pain of disappointment and of a sharper ache of love for her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The intriguing bright spots and other interesting features of this captivating world will come into sharper focus.

('Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion, NASA)

To their ears came the sounds of dogs wrangling and scuffling, the guttural cries of men, the sharper voices of scolding women, and once the shrill and plaintive cry of a child.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In bringing the lower-resolution compositional data into sharper focus, the scientists spotted unexpectedly high amounts of hydrogen — which at high latitudes is a sign of buried water ice — around sections of the Martian equator.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

As she looked full at me, I saw her face grow sharper and paler, and the marks of the old wound lengthen out until it cut through the disfigured lip, and deep into the nether lip, and slanted down the face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her teeth, in the dim, uncertain light, seemed longer and sharper than they had been in the morning.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)