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grift

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ɡɹɪft/

Definition of grift

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, slang)A confidence game or swindle.
    “Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?”
    “‘Sounds like he’s trying to stretch out his grift for as long as possible,’ Gentle said. ‘Taking as much from his followers as he can before it falls apart.’”
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noun

  1. (US, slang)A confidence game or swindle.
    “Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?”
    “‘Sounds like he’s trying to stretch out his grift for as long as possible,’ Gentle said. ‘Taking as much from his followers as he can before it falls apart.’”

verb

  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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Etymology

American criminal underworld slang, 1906 (noun), 1915 (verb), alteration of graft (“corruption, illicit profit through corrupt means, bribe, one's occupation”), alteration perhaps influenced by similar sounding words, e.g. drift, etc., probably ultimately from Middle Dutch graft (“digging, ditch, canal, trench”) (modern Dutch gracht), related to Dutch graven (“to dig”), English grave (“to dig”).

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