sharpie

noun8

1. •
   A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.
2. •
   (US) A knowledgeable fisherman.
3. •
   (informal) An alert person.

   • You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years. — 2012
4. •
   (US) 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. — 1953
5. •
   (US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.

   • 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. — 2006
6. •
   (Australia) 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. — 2006
7. •
   (US) Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.

   • My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie. — 2010
8. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper.

   • The bird looked of a similar character to a knot/pec sandpiper/sharpie, but the exact size was difficult to judge[.] — 2009

noun1

1. •
   A permanent marker of the above brand.