sharpie

Meanings

Plural: sharpies

Noun

• an alert and energetic person
• a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
• a pen with indelible ink that will write on any surface
• a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States
• An alert person.
• A knowledgeable fisherman.
• A swindler.
• A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.
• Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.
• Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.
• A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.
• A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.

Synonyms

busy bee, card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, eager beaver, live wire, sharp, sharper, sharpy