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Rifter vs Grifter - What's the difference?

rifter | grifter |

As nouns the difference between rifter and grifter

is that rifter is a rafter while grifter is a con man. Someone who pulls confidence games.

rifter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rafter.
    • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)

    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 .