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单词 sharpie
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Definition of sharpie in English:

sharpie

nounPlural sharpies ˈʃɑːpiˈʃɑrpi
  • 1A sharp-prowed, flat-bottomed New England sailing boat, with one or two masts each rigged with a triangular sail.

    (新英格兰的)单(或双)桅三角帆平底船

  • 2North American informal

    another term for sharper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I've got to play poker with you sharpies some time.
    • The dialogue runs true and overall you'll experienced a roller coaster of an adventure among hustlers, high rollers, sharpies.
    • The Pick Six gimmick at the race track is where the money is, and all the evidence points to the fact that three sharpies made their big play on the great day of the Breeders Cup championship races at Arlington Park outside of Chicago on Oct. 26.
    • They charge that, by pushing investors out on a financial high wire without a net, his policies expose millions of Americans to the risk of stock busts, housing bubbles, and fleecing by financial sharpies.
    • The sharpies who run these corporations found loopholes in our laws that allow them to dodge paying the taxes they rightfully owe.
    • We will assume, for the purposes of the exercise, that the manager is a real sharpie and squeezes every last dime out of his company.
    • But in The Theory of Moral Sentiments - yes, by the same Adam Smith beloved of Wall Street sharpies, a book he himself thought more important than The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith makes this argument.
    • The occasion would have been a family car trip; the time, the late '50s - the haute Vegas era of feathery showgirls, sharpies in Sy Devore suits, and Sammy Davis Jr. at the Sands.
    • It lets corporate sharpies pretend to be headquartered offshore, even though they're physically right here in the USA.
  • 3Australian informal (in the 1960s and 1970s) a young person resembling a skinhead, with close-cropped hair and distinctive dress.

    〈澳,非正式〉夏皮士(与光头仔类似的年轻人,短发,穿奇装异服)

Rhymes

harpy, okapi, serape

Definition of sharpie in US English:

sharpie

nounˈʃɑrpiˈSHärpē
  • 1A sharp-prowed, flat-bottomed New England sailboat, with one or two masts each rigged with a triangular sail.

    (新英格兰的)单(或双)桅三角帆平底船

  • 2North American informal A dishonest and cunning person, especially a cheat.

    〈非正式,主北美〉狡诈者(尤指骗子)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It lets corporate sharpies pretend to be headquartered offshore, even though they're physically right here in the USA.
    • The sharpies who run these corporations found loopholes in our laws that allow them to dodge paying the taxes they rightfully owe.
    • But in The Theory of Moral Sentiments - yes, by the same Adam Smith beloved of Wall Street sharpies, a book he himself thought more important than The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith makes this argument.
    • The occasion would have been a family car trip; the time, the late '50s - the haute Vegas era of feathery showgirls, sharpies in Sy Devore suits, and Sammy Davis Jr. at the Sands.
    • They charge that, by pushing investors out on a financial high wire without a net, his policies expose millions of Americans to the risk of stock busts, housing bubbles, and fleecing by financial sharpies.
    • We will assume, for the purposes of the exercise, that the manager is a real sharpie and squeezes every last dime out of his company.
    • The dialogue runs true and overall you'll experienced a roller coaster of an adventure among hustlers, high rollers, sharpies.
    • The Pick Six gimmick at the race track is where the money is, and all the evidence points to the fact that three sharpies made their big play on the great day of the Breeders Cup championship races at Arlington Park outside of Chicago on Oct. 26.
    • I've got to play poker with you sharpies some time.
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