sharpie
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- 1A pen with a felt tip that writes thick, dark, lasting lines.
Like a pen, but the ink is thicker and much harder to rub off.
Could you pass me a sharpie to label these boxes?
She always keeps a sharpie in her bag for signing autographs.
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- 3A person who notices things quickly and thinks fast.
Like someone who sees the answer before anyone else does.
She's a real sharpie when it comes to spotting mistakes.
You need a sharpie at the front desk who catches every detail.
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- 4A long, narrow fishing boat made for use in shallow water.
Like a slim canoe made for catching fish in shallow water.
The fisherman poled his sharpie across the shallow bay.
They built a wooden sharpie to work the oyster beds.
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- 5A member of a violent, sharply dressed youth gang from the 1960s and 1970s.
Her older brother ran with the sharpies back in the early seventies.
A sharpie in tight clothes and short hair waited outside the dance hall.
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- 6A fisherman who knows a lot about fishing and the water.
Ask the old sharpie down at the dock where the bass are biting.
Every sharpie on the lake knew that cove held the best catch.
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- 7Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk. Birdwatchers use it as a quick name for the small, fast woodland hawk.
A sharpie darted through the trees after a sparrow.
We spotted a sharpie perched at the edge of the woods.
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- 8Clipping of sharp-tailed sandpiper. Birdwatchers use it as a quick name for the shorebird.
A sharpie probed the mudflat for tiny worms.
Birders crowded the shore to see the rare sharpie.
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Origin
From the word "sharp" plus "-ie," a small-forming ending.