grifter
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
grifter (plural grifters)
- A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
- We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel.
- 1958, Robert Bloch, That Hell-Bound Train
- That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
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