Meaning of card mechanic | Babel Free

Definitions

A cardsharp.

Examples

“Now John Lee Walker was a card mechanic / Had a hand for trouble and a eye for cash”

“Card mechanics practice bottom dealing in front of a mirror until it becomes so natural they can't see themselves cheat.”

“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 […]”

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