Noun

(wikipedia sharpie) (en noun)

An alert person. (rfex)

(US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.

* 1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best , , 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.

(US) A swindler.

*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 102:

*:Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.

(US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.

* 1995 , Rodney Barfield, Seasoned by Salt: A Historical Album of the Outer Banks , page 168,

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 vesel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.

* 2006 , Greg Rössel, The Boatbuilder's Apprentice , page 293,

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.

(birdwatching)

* 2005 , Bill Thompson, Eirik A. T. Blom, Jeffrey A. Gordon, Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges , page 93,

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 are sitting.

* 2010 , Era S. VanDenburg, The Natural World of Ivy Lane , page 48,

My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie .

(Australia) A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.

* 2006 , Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970 , page 47,

The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular sharpie' hang-out.' Sharpies were all deep drinkers.

A felt-tipped marker pen.

Noun

(en noun)

An object used to mark a location.

Someone or something that marks.

# One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.

# A counter used in card games and other games.

# The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.

# An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.

* 2013 , Phil McNulty, " Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 22 September 2013:

Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.

A felt-tipped pen.

(slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.

(slang, figuratively) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor.

We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers .

(paintball) A device that fires a paintball

(sports) A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=He skipped past Marc Wilson before clipping a delicious cross into the Stoke danger zone, where Cisse's sharp movement allowed him to escape marker Robert Huth and send a far-post header crashing against the crossbar. And Cabaye was waiting to pounce on the rebound with a close range header.}}

A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.

(In competition law) A recognition given by a competition authority that a company is the first to approach it to reveal the existence of a cartel, as a prelude to a formal application for leniency for the company.