Usually means: Deception for personal financial gain.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word grift:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. grift: Merriam-Webster
  2. grift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grift: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Grift, grift: Wordnik
  6. grift: Wiktionary
  7. grift: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. grift: Dictionary.com
  9. Grift (Fossa Eugeniana), Grift (disambiguation), Grift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. grift: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grift: Legal dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grift, grift: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. grift: Urban Dictionary
  3. Grift: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grift)

noun:  (US, slang) A confidence game or swindle.
verb:  (transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game.
verb:  (intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally.
verb:  (intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

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