sharpie

Noun

1. An alert person.
   • 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...
   • You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years. - 2012, Richard W. Munchkin, Gambling Wizards, page 109:
2. A knowledgeable fisherman.
   • 1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best, Field & Stream, page 78, Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie. In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is...
3. 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. - 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 102:
4. 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. The sharpie is a flat-bottomed,...
   • On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies. The earliest sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore. - 2006, Greg...
5. 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...
   • My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie. - 2010, Era S. VanDenburg, The Natural World of Ivy Lane, page 48:
6. Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.
   • The bird looked of a similar character to a knot/pec sandpiper/sharpie, but the exact size was difficult to judge[.] - 2009 August 26, Rewi, “Help me Identify a Wader please”, in Birding NZ, archived from the original...
   • I went back into my photos, and yes, on 13 Nov, I photographed both Sharpie and the Pec. - 2019 November 21, Stan Jarzynski, “Possible Pectoral Sandpiper”, in canberrabirds mailing list:
7. 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. - 2006, Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970, page 47:

   Synonyms: sharp

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