grift

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

grifts

1.
(US, slang)A confidence game or swindle.
Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?
Đồng nghĩa: deception, deceit, dupery, fiddle, fetch, hocus-pocus, jugglery, legerdemain, list, mislead, prestidigitation, Punic faith, rinky-dink, ruse, sleight of hand, subterfuge, swack, trickery

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

grifts

V_ing/Gerund

grifting

V_ed/pp

grifted

1.
(US, slang, transitive)To obtain illegally, as by con game.
2.
(US, intransitive, slang)To obtain money illegally.
3.
(US, intransitive, slang)To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

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Đồng nghĩa

deception deceit dupery fiddlefetchhocus-pocusjugglerylegerdemainlist mislead prestidigitationPunic faithrinky-dinkrusesleight of handsubterfuge swack trickery

Cùng gốc / liên quan

griftershopgriftgriftable

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Nguồn gốc từ

American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft, alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift, etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (digging, ditch, canal, trench) (modern gracht), related to graven, grave.