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chiseler noun- a cheat, a petty swindler US, 1918
- “I don’t like competition from amateur chiselers,” Dopey said. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 27, 1947
- “Amboy Dukes are supposed to be regular guys”–she wept and clutched her purse with both hands–“not a bunch of chiselers.” — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 43, 1947
- [M]any a fearful anhd repentant chiseler has been fleeced by smart operators who told him they were wonder-workers. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 161, 1951
- Two of the worst chiselers I ever seen. Why, I’d never seen the characters before, and they tried to put the bite on me! — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, p. 144, 1954
- a gambler who places small, conservative bets US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 122, May 1950
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