sharpie

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An alert person.

   • You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years.
2. 2

   A knowledgeable fisherman.

3. 3

   A swindler.

   • Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.
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   1. 4

      A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.

      • It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies, but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting.
      • My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie.
   3. 6

      Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.

      • The bird looked of a similar character to a knot/pec sandpiper/sharpie, but the exact size was difficult to judge[.]
      • I went back into my photos, and yes, on 13 Nov, I photographed both Sharpie and the Pec.
   4. 7

      A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.

      • The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular sharpie hang-out.[…]Sharpies were all deep drinkers.
   5. 8

      A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.

   6. 9

      A brand of pointed permanent markers used primarily for labeling items in boldface,…

      A brand of pointed permanent markers used primarily for labeling items in boldface, signing autographs, etc.

   7. 10

      A permanent marker of the above brand.

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