Definition of "shamateur" []

• A sportsman who is officially an amateur but who makes money from playing, or who otherwise behaves as a professional. (noun)

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• "Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman -- a shamateur."
• "Henry Grey was the shamateur to end all shamateurs."
• "I had only my salary from Anglia, and what I could earn by being frankly, almost notoriously, a shamateur jockey."