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twenties
noun
a swindle featuring a twenty-dollar note US, 1952- Thus, for the tenth time that day, he had worked the twenties, one of the three standard gimmicks of the short con grift. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 6, 1963
- What we did, ever so often we’d pull off the pigeon drop for maybe twenty-five dollars, with me plainting the leather, or work the twenties for a five. — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 151, 1972
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