grift
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9.3
- noun
- /ɡrɪft/
- Slang
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- I'm talking about a grift, and it pays well.
So I fucking had it with all these extra grift fees on shipping.
- So I fucking had it with all these extra grift fees on shipping.
- What's worse is that Michael Corleone is running the grift and Fredo is running the government.
- I mean, it's just it's a bit of a grift.
- And the really shrewd grifters keep on changing their grift with culture and they're constantly adjusting.
- He said her whole act about how the election was stolen is a giant grift.
- Davos is a grift and a cult, but it's also a bid for global domination.
- It showed him to be more interested in the grift of it.
- If they are betrayed, they go full in for vengeance or they just shrug and they accept the grift of the world in a way the rest of us do not.
- But people on the Internet are so simp conscious, they're so like grift aware that they just ready on tenterhooks to go.
Examples
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This is the most shameless, most obvious daylight robbery, grift of all time.
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His latest grift involved selling fake tickets to a concert, swindling unsuspecting fans out of their money.
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Look, what kind of a grift is this?
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- So you know how this grift works?
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We get in... we get our grift... we get out.
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Being on the grift is a tough life.
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And my bet is that he'll still be running the same grift to the same people, and making more millions.
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It's just sickening to witness this grift happening in real time.
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When I started with Benzini, this show was nothing but grift.
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Davos is a grift and a cult, but it's also a bid for global domination.
Synonyms
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2.8
An act of dishonesty that gives someone an unfair advantage
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8.2
Illegal use of power by officials, often involving bribes, to get money
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9.8
Secret dishonest actions to get an unfair advantage
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6.3
Dishonest behavior in business or money matters
Actions that cheat people to get their money
Antonyms
How Dishonest
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word grift began as American slang for a small con or dishonest plan 'to get money'. One helpful way to remember it is to think of grifter or graft—like a 'grab' by trick—so grift means a dishonest scheme.