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Does anyone recognise the terms carder and carding? I'm not talking about the well-known wool-processing uses of the words but in a more modern context. I've only ever seen them in an Indonesian context but italicised as non-Indonesian words (for example http://www.detikinet.com/net/2002/10/02/20021002-132016.shtml ). A carder, as far as I can make out, is someone who commits credit card fraud over the internet using stolen numbers or numbers from stolen cards, and carding is the practice. Are these words in more general use and I just haven't noticed? Bingley
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"To card" is also used in a bar context, as in, "They must have thought I looked too young to drink, because they carded me." Or is this just a North Americanism? ("I got carded the other night - it made my day!")
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I think it's just local Indonesian terminology, Bingley. We call it "stripping cards", so I guess some who does it would be a "stripper" and the action itself would be "stripping". Obviously, there are some slight problems with using these terms out of anything resembling context ...
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some slight problems with using these terms out of anything resembling context
Then there was the want ad in the paper for an offset stripper.
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I've heard of the phenomenon, but only ever heard the usage of the word refering to wool.
"You'll never pull the wool over my eyes. Cashmir, maybe, but never wool." Thurston Howell III
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I have come across the usage, although not for a large number of years, to mean "playing a card game."
e.g. - " Are you coming carding down at the Boot & shoe tonight?"
"Owd Alf's a champion carder, tha knows."
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I think it's just local Indonesian terminology
and Russian as well. I red in Belorussian newspapers that two Belorussian men were accused of carding - they bought things like notebooks using stolen credit card numbers on eBay. we simply don't have the word for it in Russian. English is a very economic language. that's whty a lot of computer terms made their way to Russian - web, e-mail, carding...
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