card-sharping

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• Card sharp — A card sharp (informally also cardsharp, card shark, cardshark) is a person who uses skill and deception to win at poker or other card games. Also known in card gaming jargon as a mechanic , an older politically incorrect term is greek .Fact|date …   Wikipedia

• card sharp — /ˈkad ʃap/ (say kahd shahp) noun a person who cheats at cards. Also, cardsharper. {US (1880s); card1 + obsolete sharper a cheat at cards} –card sharping, noun …  

• Deception — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deception >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deception deception Sgm: N 1 falseness falseness &c. 544 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm: N 1 imposition imposition imposture Sgm: N 1 fraud …   English dictionary for students

• The Deck of Cards — For other uses, see Deck of cards (disambiguation). The Deck of Cards is a recitative that was popularized in both the country and popular music fields, first during the late 1940s. This religious, touching[citation needed] tale of a young… …   Wikipedia

• bunco — n. & v. US sl. n. (pl. os) a swindle, esp. by card sharping or a confidence trick. v.tr. ( oes, oed) swindle, cheat. Etymology: perh. f. Sp. banca a card game …   Useful english dictionary

• List of minor Blandings characters — Lists of P. G. Wodehouse characters Characters in all Wodehouse stories Characters in the Blandings stories Characters in the Drones Club stories Characters in the Jeeves stories Characters in the Mulliner stories Characters in the Ukridge… …   Wikipedia

• deception — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Misrepresentation Nouns 1. (act of deceiving) deception, deceptiveness; falseness, falsehood, untruth; imposition, imposture, misinformation, disinformation; fraud, fraudulence, deceit, deceitfulness,… …   English dictionary for students

• deal from the bottom of the deck —    to lie or cheat    The imagery is from card sharping:     For all we knew, he could be dealing from the bottom of the deck, just to make more money. (Forsyth, 1994) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms