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short con noun a confidence game in which the victim is swindled once, without being sent home for a bigger prize US, 1940- Unlike the big con operator, whose elaborate scene-setting may involve as much as a hundred thousand dollars, the short-con grifter can run on peanuts. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 22, 1963
- It’s short con because the play for the sucker is short and we can only trim the sucker for the goddamn scratch in his pocket. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 111, 1969
- According to your statement you are a shot-con operator. Run of the mill scams. — The Usual Suspects, 1995
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