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English
Etymology
From card + sharper.
Noun
cardsharper (plural cardsharpers)
- (rare) Synonym of cardsharp
1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.