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grifter
noun- a person who makes their living by confidence swindles, especially short cons US, 1915
Widely familiar from Jim Thompson’s 1963 novel The Grifters and its 1990 film adaptation. - Its 200 yards are lined almost unbrokenly by cheap hotels and rooming-houses sheltering all manner of strange characters: retired vaudevillians, down-and-out horse players, dope fiends, grifters and grafters[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 13, 1948
- I don’t want you messing with the grifters around here. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 52, 1952
- In town, Kid’s woman, Rita, the fledgling grifter in the minor role of Lance Wellington’s Baroness sister, stood impatiently on the front porch of the mob’s museum-mansion set-up in a secluded area of the city. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Long White Con, p. 125, 1977
- in horse racing, a bettor who makes small, conservative bets US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 33, 1951
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