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Shallow-draft vessel
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sharpie
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n. an alert and energetic person [syn: eager beaver , busy bee , live wire , sharpy ] a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud [syn: swindler , chiseller , chiseler , gouger , scammer , grifter , sharper , sharpy ] a long narrow shallow-draft ...
Usage examples of sharpie.
Not that I believe it, sir, but Sir Arthur does, and the result of that, sir, is that Sir Arthur thinks bloody Sharpie is a blue eyed boy.
Bunco Squad men and, seated at his desk, a hungry lupine sharpie with onyx eyes who had to be Goodkind himself.
As he came across in her exuberant description, he was a happy-go-lucky sharpie with a heart full of larceny but without any vestige of a mean streak, a chipper quick-witted con man with a deck of cards in one hand and a stack of uranium stock in the other, a heavy drinker but not a sloppy one, a big spender and a good-time Charlie, a man whose sense of responsibility and need for security were about as well developed as that of the lilies of the field.
I even told her about my most embarrassing trial story, the time I reached into my suit jacket for my Sharpie pen and pulled out a Tampax instead.
Not that I believe it, sir, but Sir Arthur does, and the result of that, sir, is that Sir Arthur thinks bloody Sharpie is a blue-eyed boy.
Daddy left the bulk of his fortune to his dog, to be overseen by a sharpie lawyer and this creep who looks after the dog.
Harmon was right out of sight in no time, and the last we saw of Abner Sharpies was his coattail flying through the air as his feet went out from under him on a sharp turn, and he went rolling down the hill like a barrel of lard.
Two hours later, Daphne and Homer just happened to be among the tiny knot of curious spectators gathered outside the door of the Town Council meeting room when Abner Sharpies appeared to urge the Council to investigate the mystery of the old cannon.
A moment later he was in excited consultation with Abner Sharpies in a corner of the room.
Jim Callahan, the city engineer, was in charge of the project, but Abner Sharpies kept running around giving orders and making speeches to the crowd so nobody would forget whose idea it was.
My side was aching from Mortimer elbowing me in the ribs every time Abner Sharpies said something stupid.
Abner Sharpies grabbed the satchel and held it aloft for everyone to see.
The crowd followed Abner Sharpies down the hill to the road, and Mortimer and I tagged along.
Abner Sharpies, seething with rage, rose abruptly frem his chair and pushed his way through the crowd to the door.
He was more worried about those who might be on the other side of the law, the various scoundrels and sharpies who would be more likely to have heard the latest scuttlebutt and be looking to profit from it.