grifter

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noun

Plural noun:

grifters

1.
(US, informal)(informal, originally Canada, US) A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.
Đồng nghĩa: bristler, bunco artist, bunco-steerer, chiseler, con artist, confidence artist, confidence trickster, conman, flimflammer, grifter, lugger, magsman, mountebank, saltimbanco, sharpster, sharker, shark-gull, slicker, smooth operator, spiv
2.
(Internet, colloquial, especially)(colloquial, especially Internet) 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.
3.
(Internet, derogatory)A YouTuber or other content creator who produces low-effort content critiquing a particular franchise or trend, particularly content perceived as ragebait or done for monetary gain.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From grift + -er; or probably an alteration of grafter (a corrupt person, one who accepts bribes), which is essentially a of the same word. Originally circus slang (carny; compare shill of similar semantics), gradually widened in sense. 1906; popularized online late 2010s.