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steer
verb
in confidence swindles, to direct the confederate(s) who will swindle the victim US, 1889- The lush was a complete stranger, having been delivered by a cabdriver who steered for various joints, and Tappy had just gotten around to selling him the first bottle of bubbly. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 213, 1956
- What are you steering for this craps joint? — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 94, 1969
- It’s easy to steer a lop-eared chump, so long as Mordecai Jones has sized up the mark. — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 168, 1972
- He rarely failed to “steer” the mark. — Stephen Cannell, King Con, p. 34, 1997
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