sharpie
- (colloquial) An alert person.
- (US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.
- (US) A swindler.
- (US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.
- (US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.
- (Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.
- (Australia) A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.
- A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃɑɹpi/
Etymology
From sharp + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
sharpy
card shark
card sharper
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