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sharpie noun- a gambling cheat US, 1942
- Some poolroom sharpie lounging in the lobby came to a sitting position when he spotted two hustlers being pulled in by a couple soft-clothes dicks[.] — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 265, 1949
- The sharpie who got tired of selling the Brooklyn Bridge moved into the District and now sells the Washington Monument. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 276, 1951
- And do not think that it is the abode, the stomping ground, of only the pimp, sharpie, and floozy set. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 6, 1953
- Just what I said: any of your sharpies here willing to take my five bucks that says that I can get the best of that woman–before the week’s up–without her getting the best of me? — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 71, 1962
- [H]is latest room had an assortment of bum dice and new-but-marked decks of cards very cleverly packaged and stamped. He was a sharpie. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 23, 1963
- The straight players could never match wits with sharpies and hustlers who loaded dice, marked cards, and used drugs and booze and women to beat the innocent gambler out of his bankroll. — Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas, p. 42, 1977
- in pinball, a player who can play for long periods of time without paying because of his ability to win free games US
- — Bobbye Claire Natkin and Steve Kirk, All About Pinball, p. 116, 1977
- a stylishly dressed teenage delinquent AUSTRALIA
From SHARPBODGIEWIDGIEPUNK ROCK - The sharpies dressed as we did, but did not look for blues, have back-ups or do any of the other real crazy mixed-up things that us cats did for kicks. — William Dick, A Bunch of Ratbags, p. 202, 1965
- an uncircumcised penis US
- — Amy Sohn, Sex and the City, p. 157, 2002
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