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grifter

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɹɪftɚ/Part of speech nounSorted efgirrtStarts with GEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Word origin

From grift + -er; or probably an alteration of grafter (“a corrupt person, one who accepts bribes”), which is essentially a doublet of the same word. Originally circus slang (carny; compare shill of similar semantics), gradually widened in sense. First attested in 1906; popularized online circa late 2010s.

Used in a sentence

  • We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel.
  • 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.

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