grift

FREQ #42966

n. 诈骗 vt. 诈骗

发音

AU /ɡɹɪft/

词形变化

grifts 复数 grifts grifted grifting grifts 三单 grifting 现在分词 grifted 过去式 grifted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A confidence game or swindle.

    美国 俚语

    Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?

v.
  1. 1.

    To obtain illegally, as by con game.

    美国 俚语 及物
  2. 2.

    To obtain money illegally.

    美国 不及物 俚语
  3. 3.

    To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

    美国 不及物 俚语

词源

American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft (“corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one's occupation”), alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift, etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (“digging, ditch, canal, trench”) (modern Dutch gracht), related to Dutch graven (“to dig”), English grave (“to dig”).

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