sharpy vs card player

sharpy and card player both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sharpy	Yes	No	No	No
card player	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, card player is a hypernym of sharpy; that is, card player is a word with a broader meaning than sharpy:

sharpy: a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
card player: someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games

Other hypernyms of sharpy include chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler.

sharpy (noun)	card player (noun)
a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games	someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games
an alert and energetic person