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grift
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grift  (grft) Slang
n.
1. Money made dishonestly, as in a swindle.
2. A swindle or confidence game.
v. grift·ed, grift·ing, grifts
v.intr.
To engage in swindling or cheating.
v.tr.
To obtain by swindling or cheating.

[Perhaps alteration of graft.]

grifter n.
Translations
grift (dated US, sl)
n (= money)ergaunertes or erschwindeltes Geld
vikrumme Dinger drehen (sl)


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Nelida came with a handful of other Mexican moon-children, some of them women, some of them men, and divested themselves of their grifted goods into the unbuttoned seats and floorboards of Rodolfo's truck as quickly as they could.
The first time I was grifted by The Man, the machine swallowing my money; this time it wouldn't accept a single silver centime from me.
Master and servant have grifted their way across the countryside, leaving many an unpaid debt in their wake.
 
 
 
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