Sharpie

Sharpiename/ˈʃɑː(ɹ)pi/

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  A brand of pointed permanent markers used primarily for labeling items in boldface, signing autographs, etc.

Sharpienoun/ˈʃɑː(ɹ)pi/

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  A permanent marker of the above brand.

sharpienoun/ˈʃɑɹpi/

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  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 than most people do."
  • You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years.
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  regionalA 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 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.
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  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.
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  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, shallow-draft vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.
  • 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.
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  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.
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  A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• sharp-shinned hawk
• sharp-tailed sandpiper