WordNet
card shark
n. a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games [syn: cardsharp, card sharp, cardsharper, card sharper]
Usage examples of "card shark".
He was our best operative in Primoroso, a card shark who helped rig a number of ballot boxes.
To everyone's surprise, once Grantville eventually bowed to reality after the Ring of Fire and the enormous influx of immigrants and lifted its up-time restrictions on gambling, the town's elderly mayor had been revealed as a card shark.