card mechanic
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[edit]Noun
[edit]card mechanic (plural card mechanics)
- 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 […]