Dictionary

card mechanic en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A cardsharp.
   • 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 […] 2010, William Harrison, The Mutations of Rollerball: Essays, page 48:
   • Card mechanics practice bottom dealing in front of a mirror until it becomes so natural they can't see themselves cheat. 2007, Gordon Donnell, The Only Game in Town:
   • Now John Lee Walker was a card mechanic / Had a hand for trouble and a eye for cash 1971, Charlie Daniels, “Trudy”, in Charlie Daniels:

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Hyponyms

mechanic