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blackleg

noun

as in cardsharp

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Recent Examples of blackleg Herding Sheep with Bill There was no contradicting his calendar Of superstitions – the feast of some saint or other The sheep had to be herded off the mountain, Culled and counted, dipped and Doctored with shots for blackleg. —

Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018

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Noun

And there is possibly no American actor more suited than Mr. Mays to shuffling through the dozens of players in Dickens’s celebrated tale with the ease of a cardsharp.

— Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
The yarn Guimarães tells about encountering one of his idols, a storied cardsharp who could effortlessly pull off any sleight of hand necessary to tilt a high-stakes game in his favor, gets lost in the shuffle of the show’s activities.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020