- eager beaver, busy bee, live wire, sharpie, sharpy - an alert and energetic person
--1 is a kind of actor, doer, worker
--1 has particulars: goffer, gopher - swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, sharper, sharpie, sharpy - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
--2 is a kind of deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
--2 has particulars:cardsharp, card sharp, cardsharper, card sharper, card shark; clip artist; confidence man, con man, con artist; welcher, welsher - sharpie - a long narrow shallow-draft boat with a flat bottom and a triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States
--3 is a kind of boat