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Grifted vs Grifter - What's the difference?

grifted | grifter |

As a verb grifted

is past tense of grift.

As a noun grifter is

a con man. Someone who pulls confidence games.

grifted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (grift)

    • grift

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a confidence game or swindle.
    • as in "What's the Grift?" or "What are you trying to pull?"

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To obtain illegally, as by con game.
  • To obtain money illegally.

    • grifter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 .
  • :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 .