grifter

FREQ #30726

n. 赌棍, 小偷, 骗子

发音

US /ˈɡɹɪftɚ/
AU /ˈɡɹɪftə/
UK /ˈɡɹɪftə/

词形变化

grifters 复数 grifters

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.

    美国 非正式
  2. 2.

    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.

    非正式

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

swindler chiseler chiseller defrauder gouger scammer

上位词 6

cheat cheater trickster deceiver slicker beguiler

下位词 9

sharper sharpie cardshark cardsharp cardsharper con artist sharpy welcher welsher

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary