sharpie

noun

1. (colloquial)An alert person.

   “Eunice Marshall asked in a bored tone, "Are you, by any chance, selling magazines?" Daisy grinned childishly, enjoying Eunice's mistake. "You're quite a sharpie, aren't you, ma'am? You figured me out a whole lot faster than most people do."”

   “You have to beat a lot of real sharpies, guys who have been playing for years.”

2. (US, regional)A knowledgeable fisherman.
3. (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.”

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

   “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 vessel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.”

   “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.”

5. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of sharp-shinned hawk.

   “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.”

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

6. (Australia, New-Zealand, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)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[.]”

   “I went back into my photos, and yes, on 13 Nov, I photographed both Sharpie and the Pec.”

7. (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.”

8. A Sharpie or other brand of felt-tipped marker pen.
9. A permanent marker of the above brand.

name

1. A brand of pointed permanent markers used primarily for labeling items in boldface, signing autographs, etc.