card mechanic

English

Noun

card mechanic (plural card mechanics)

  1. A cardsharp.
    Hyponym: mechanic
    • 2007, Gordon Donnell, The Only Game in Town:
      Card mechanics practice bottom dealing in front of a mirror until it becomes so natural they can't see themselves cheat.
    • 2010, William Harrison, The Mutations of Rollerball: Essays, page 48:
      The rights to Titanic's story is [sic] owned by the gambler's son—a card mechanic of some repute himself—and these rights have been sold recently to a dentist in Dallas who teamed up with an advertising executive from Fort Worth […]
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