एक व्यावसायिक कार्ड खेळाडू जो कार्ड गेममध्ये फसवणूक करून आपली उपजीविका करतो,

Noun:

खारपार,

sharpers's Usage Examples:

argot, the adventures of a young heir who falls into the hands of the sharpers there.

Card-sharpers by Candlelight (1845) by Feliks Pęczarski, National Museum in Warsaw.

But this Chamberlain comes home beaming as fatuously as some country-cousin whom a couple of card-sharpers in the train have.

little money to support himself, he encounters malice, discrimination and sharpers at every turn.

Thus oft the industrious poor endures reproach From rogues in lace, and sharpers in a coach; But soon to Tyburn sees the villains led While he still earns.

It was introduced into the game by "card-sharpers", who, working in collusion, used it to systematically overcall "Mr.

These sharpers lay their snares for the Welch knight; and their successes and detection.

Philip plays poker with a gang of sharpers and a fight breaks out when he discovers he is being cheated.

Pęczarski"s 1845 work Card-sharpers by candlelight, depicting a card whose back has been marked, possibly using wax to add lines which become slightly.

They "behaved like asses and sharpers combined", said James.

according to their own showing, distressed patriots; German swindlers and card-sharpers, who declare themselves to be Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, Jew coin-clippers.

Merchant and the Sharpers features an old man known as the "Sheikh of Thieves" who delivered judgement on less experienced sharpers.

Fast and Loose is a cheating game played at fairs by sharpers.