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kiter

kiter

9.9
A person who writes checks without enough money to get cash
  • noun
  • /ˈkaɪtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : estafador de cheques
  • After reviewing the transactions, the investigators identified him as a notorious kiter involved in check fraud.

Examples

  • The bank reported that the suspected kiter had written multiple checks without sufficient funds.

  • But Jimmy Israel is also accused of conman-like business ventures while the coptic patsy is a convicted check kiter.

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  • She lost thousands of dollars to a kiter who tricked her into believing he was trustworthy.

Synonyms

paperhanger
vskiter
  • Archaic
9.9

A person who pays with fake money or bad checks

focuses on a specific scheme of writing checks to obtain unavailable funds

Surface Forms

kiter singular
kiters plural

Morphology

kiter = kite (opaque) = kite + er

Although formed from 'kite' + '-er', the fraud sense is specialized banking jargon whose meaning is not predictable from the common 'kite' (toy/bird).

Etymology

Kiter comes from kite + -er, meaning 'one who kites'. One popular story says this use is like a kite that 'flies' checks between banks, so a kiter moves checks to get money that is not actually there.