card

Related to card: birthday card, card games

card

1. noun, informal A funny, clever, and entertaining person. Gosh, Sarah sure is a card, huh? She always cracks me up!
2. verb, informal To inspect someone's personal identification to verify that they are of legal age. The bouncer is carding everyone. There's no way he's going to let me in with this crappy fake ID. I'm nearly 35 years old, and I still get carded when I go out to the bar.

carded

Asked to show one's ID to prove that they are legally old enough to be in a particular place or doing a specific thing. I'm 30 years old, but I look so young that I get carded all the time. We'll never be able to get into the bar without being carded!
See also: card

carding

A type of fraud in which credit card, bank account, and other personal information is stolen and then sold, usually online. I'm worried that my bank information was stolen in a carding scheme.
See also: card
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*card

Fig. an entertaining and clever person who says or does funny things. (*Typically: act like ~; be ~.) He is such a card. Always making jokes. Mary is a card, and she has to learn to take things seriously sometimes.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

card

verb
See phish

card

1. n. a funny person. Britney is such a card. She cracks me up.
2. tv. to check people’s ID cards for age or other eligibility. (see also carded.) They card everybody at the football games, even the parents.
3. Go to phish.

carded

and proofed
mod. [of an ID card] examined to determine whether one has reached the legal drinking age. Dave got carded at the party even though he is thirty and looks it. As soon as we were proofed, we got in and got some brews.
See also: card

carding

verb
See spoofing
See also: card
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a calling card
  • a card up (one's) sleeve
  • a card-carrying member (of something)
  • a dance card
  • a few cards short of a (full) deck
  • a few cards shy of a (full) deck
  • a hole card
  • a house of cards
  • a wild card
  • a wild card word for words beginning with
  • a/your trump card
  • be a card-carrying member (of something)
  • be in a tizzle
  • be on the cards
  • be one card short of a full deck
  • be one card shy of a (full) deck
  • be several cards short of a (full) deck
  • be several cards short of a full deck
  • bizzle
  • bizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • calling card
  • card
  • card counting
  • card in
  • card out
  • card up one's sleeve
  • card up sleeve
  • card-carrying
  • card-carrying member
  • carded
  • carding
  • cards are stacked against
  • cards on the table, to lay/put one's
  • chizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • count cards
  • counting cards
  • dance card
  • dance card is full, my
  • dizzle
  • dizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • drawing card
  • face card
  • few bricks short of a load
  • fizzle
  • get (one's) cards
  • get out of jail free card
  • get your cards
  • gizzle
  • gizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • go in with good cards
  • have (all) the cards
  • have a card up (one's) sleeve
  • have a card up your sleeve
  • have the cards stacked against
  • have the cards stacked against (someone or something)
  • have the cards stacked up against (someone or something)
  • hizzle
  • hizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • hold (all) the cards
  • hold (one's) cards close to (one's) chest
  • hold all the aces
  • hold all the cards
  • hole card
  • house of cards
  • idiot card
  • in the cards
  • jizzle
  • jizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • keep (one's) cards close to (one's) chest
  • keep (one's) cards close to (one's) vest
  • keep your cards close to your chest
  • keep/hold/play your cards close to your chest
  • kizzle
  • kizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • lay (one's) cards on the table
  • lay cards on the table
  • lay one's cards on the table
  • lay your cards on the table
  • left one's calling card
  • like showing a card trick to a dog
  • like showing a dog a card trick
  • lizzle
  • lizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • lose (one's) v-card
  • lucky at cards, unlucky in love
  • mark (one's) card
  • mark someone's card
  • mizzle
  • mizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • on the cards
  • one card shy of a (full) deck
  • paint card
  • phish
  • pizzle
  • pizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • play (one's) ace (card)
  • play (one's) cards close to (one's) chest
  • play (one's) cards close to (one's) vest
  • play (one's) cards right
  • play (one's) cards well
  • play (one's) trump card
  • play cards
  • play cards close to chest
  • play cards right
  • play it close to one's chest
  • play one's cards close to one's chest, to
  • play one's cards right
  • play one's cards right/well, to
  • play the (something) card
  • play the card
  • play the gender card
  • play the race card
  • play trump card
  • play your cards close to your chest
  • play your cards right
  • put (one's) cards on the table
  • put your cards on the table
  • put/lay your cards on the table
  • race card
  • reveal (one's) cards
  • rizzle
  • rizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • several cards short of a (full) deck
  • show (one's) cards
  • shuffle the cards
  • sizzle
  • sizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • someone's trump card
  • speak by the card
  • spoofing
  • stack the cards
  • stack the cards (against someone or something)
  • stack the cards in the favor of (someone or something)
  • the (something) card
  • the cards are stacked against (someone or something)
  • the cards are stacked in (someone's or something's) favor
  • the cards are stacked in favor of (someone or something)
  • the cards beat all the players
  • the cards/odds are stacked against somebody/something
  • the cards/odds are stacked in favour of somebody/something
  • the race card
  • tizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • trump card
  • v-card
  • vizzle
  • vizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • wild card
  • wizzle
  • wizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • yizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
  • zizzle
  • zizzle a wild card word for words beginning with
References in classic literature
"So you are not afraid to play with me?" repeated Dolokhov, and as if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his chair, and began deliberately with a smile:
"Oh, those Moscow gossips!" said Dolokhov, and he took up the cards with a smile.
"Why, this is Count de Coude, of France." "If I am mistaken," said the accuser, "I shall gladly apologize; but before I do so first let monsieur le count explain the extra cards which I saw him drop into his side pocket."
"There are no cards in my coat," and with that he ran his hand into his pocket.
"Gentlemen," he continued, "monsieur le count did not know that those cards were in his pocket.
Kearns, with every eye upon him, looked at his two-card draw, counted the other three to dispel any doubt of holding more than five cards, and wrote on a betting slip.
He likewise examined his draw and counted his five cards.
Simultaneously and in silence they faced their cards on the table, while a general tiptoeing and craning of necks took place among the onlookers.
The means of happiness are on the cards and the dice.
'If you're not coming yourself, give us the cards, will you?'
"Nothing can make matters worse than they are," she thought, despairingly, as Arnold dealt the cards for her.
Arnold looked at his hand--and "proposed." Anne declined to change the cards. Arnold announced, with undiminished good-humor, that he saw his way clearly, now, to losing the game, and then played his first card--the Queen of Trumps!
No one made any objection but Marianne, who with her usual inattention to the forms of general civility, exclaimed, "Your Ladyship will have the goodness to excuse ME--you know I detest cards. I shall go to the piano-forte; I have not touched it since it was tuned." And without farther ceremony, she turned away and walked to the instrument.
When he had finished, Trent took up the cards, which he had shuffled for Poker, and dealt them out for Patience.
Then he shrugged his shoulders and gathered up the cards.