Grifter

Noun

 * 1) A con man.  Someone who pulls confidence games.
 * 1939. "We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel". The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler
 * 1958. "That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode--the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew". That Hell-Bound Train. Robert Bloch

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