English Dictionary

sharpie

/ˈʃɑɹpi/

noun

(colloquial) An alert person. / (US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman. / (US) A swindler. / (US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters. / (birdwatching) Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.

He's a real sharpie when it comes to spotting good deals.

意味（1）

(colloquial) An alert person.

Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, "Are you, by any chance, selling magazines?"

Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, Are you, by any chance, selling magazines? Daisy grinned childishly, enjoying Eunice's mistake. You're quite a sharpie, aren't you, ma'am? You figured me out a whole lot faster than most people do.

意味（2）

(US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.

Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie.

Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie. In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market to make a living. Sharpies supposedly have fishing down to a science, to such a degree that they only go to particular places, at particular times, using particular fishing methods, and come back with a boatload of fish while everyone else wonders in amazement.

意味（3）

(US) 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.

意味（4）

(US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.

He brought this pair of sharpies, the Lucia and the Ella, to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat.

He brought this pair of sharpies, the Lucia and the Ella, to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat. The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.

意味（5）

(birdwatching) 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.

意味（6）

(Australia) 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.

意味（7）

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