Usually means: Con artist exploiting others financially.
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  1. grifter: Merriam-Webster
  2. grifter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grifter: Collins English Dictionary
  4. grifter: Vocabulary.com
  5. Grifter, grifter: Wordnik
  6. grifter: Wiktionary
  7. grifter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. grifter: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. grifter: Dictionary.com
  10. grifter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Grifter (character), Grifter (comics), Grifter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. grifter: Rhymezone
  13. grifter: FreeDictionary.org
  14. grifter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. grifter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. grifter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. grifter: Legal dictionary

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  1. grifter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. grifter: Urban Dictionary
  3. Grifter: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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noun:  (informal, originally Canada, US) A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.
noun:  (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.

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