Sharpie

Quick meaning: Sharpie is a noun meaning (colloquial) An alert person.

Meaning

(colloquial) An alert person.

More Meanings

1. (US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.
2. (US) A swindler.
3. (US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.
4. (birdwatching, US) Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.
5. (birdwatching, Australia, New Zealand) Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.
6. (Australia) A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.
7. A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.

Example Sentences

You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years.

My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie.

Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.

On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies. The earliest sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore.

Word Forms

• sharpies

Synonyms for sharpie

Depending on context, synonyms include sharp, swindler, chiseler, sharper, sharpy, gouger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swindler, sharper, gouger, chiseller, chiseler, sharpy.

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