cardsharping

Etymology

From card + sharping.

cardsharping means the trickery used by a cardsharp to cheat in card games. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.

Why “cardsharping” is a great word

CARDSHARPING — [Noun] The deceptive practices and trickery employed by a cardsharp to cheat at card games. From card (playing card) + sharp (in the sense of a shrewd, dishonest person, especially a swindler) + -ing (suffix forming nouns of action). An Americanism dating back to 1855–60. Unlike gambling, which broadly denotes legal games of chance, or prestidigitation, the innocent performance art of sleight of hand, cardsharping is a clandestine craft of fraud. It is the imperceptible crimp in a deck, the false shuffle that preserves a perfect hand, the silent signal between confederates across a smoky table—a cold artistry that preys on the very hope it simulates.

noun

The trickery used by a cardsharp to cheat in card games.