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SHARPIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sharpie mean? 

SHARPIE (noun)
  The noun SHARPIE has 4 senses:

1. an alert and energetic personplay

2. a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card gamesplay

3. a pen with indelible ink that will write on any surfaceplay

4. a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United Statesplay

  Familiarity information: SHARPIE used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHARPIE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An alert and energetic person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

busy bee; eager beaver; live wire; sharpie; sharpy

Hypernyms ("sharpie" is a kind of...):

actor; doer; worker (a person who acts and gets things done)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sharpie"):

goffer; gopher (a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman))


Sense 2

Meaning:

A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

card shark; card sharp; card sharper; cardsharp; cardsharper; sharper; sharpie; sharpy

Hypernyms ("sharpie" is a kind of...):

card player (someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games)

chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)


Sense 3

Meaning:

A pen with indelible ink that will write on any surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Sharpie" is a kind of...):

pen (a writing implement with a point from which ink flows)

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)


Sense 4

Meaning:

A shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sharpie" is a kind of...):

sailboat; sailing boat (a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast)


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