grifter
Significado (Inglés)
- (US, informal) A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.
- (Internet, colloquial, especially) A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity.
Sinónimos
crum
low life
scum bag
sonofobitch
Traducións
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ˈɡɹɪftɚ/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
From grift + -er; or probably an alteration of grafter (“a corrupt person, one who accepts bribes”), which is essentially a doublet of the same word. Originally circus slang (carny; compare shill of similar semantics), gradually widened in sense. First attested in 1906; popularized online circa late 2010s.
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