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grifter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler |
| Type of | cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster, cheat, beguiler |
| Has types | clip artist, con artist, con man, confidence man, sharper, sharpie, sharpy, welcher, welsher, card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper |
Examples of grifter
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He has had many job descriptions, but a persistent grifter is now under arrest.
From the cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
Uxbal is fundamentally a grifter desperate to stash away what he can for his kids.
From the kentucky.com
The head grifter is Sydney Chaplin, who acts as if he were carved in lard.
From the time.com
He'd been a grifter most of his life, a guy without a permanent address.
From the theatlantic.com
This mother-and-son grifter team has conned, robbed and even enslaved.
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Her first husband, a drifter and grifter named Eddie Judson, was roughly her father's age.
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Take, for instance, the elusive Jack Peregrine, a grifter with style and chutzpah to spare.
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One grifter goes into a store and pretends he has lost his glass eye.
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He's a grifter, too, though without her natural tools.
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- Swindler: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
- Grifter (Cole Cash) is a fictional comic book character from in the Wildstorm Universe. He is best known as a member of Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S.
- (Grifting) A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, swindle or bamboozle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. ...
- (The Grifters (band)) The Grifters was a 1990s indie rock band based in Memphis who released albums on Doink, Sonic Noise, Shangri-La Records, and Sub Pop Records.
- (The Grifters (film)) The Grifters is a 1990 neo-noir film directed by Stephen Frears and produced by Martin Scorsese. It stars John Cusack, Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening and is based upon The Grifters, a pulp novel by Jim Thompson.
- A con man. Someone who pulls confidence games
- A push-on style, small capacity lifting cup available through Wood's Powr-Grip^TM distributors.
- A practitioner of confidence tricks. (2.16, 3.4)
- Con man (Knockover, 354)
