| 释义 |
grifter U.S. slang.|ˈgrɪftə(r)|
[f. grift n.2 + -er1.]
= grafter3.
1915G. Bronson-Howard God's Man iii. iii. 213 Every time I pick up one of these here magazines..I jest naturally seem to encounter a lot of junk...whenever I read about grifters or guns—always this ‘master cracks⁓man’ stuff,..but when it comes to blasting an ordinary box I could kick my way into in my stocking feet, I read..‘The burglar leaped lightly over the garden wall.’ 1927K. Nicholson Barker 149 Grifter, grafter. 1930J. Lait Big House i. 7 A card or dice cheater is a ‘grifter’. 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 98 A grifter denotes a pickpocket or sneak thief. The term..has..in recent years so generalized that it now includes all sorts of non⁓violent criminals. 1965R. O'Connor Jack London i. i. 18 He lived off the horoscope trade until the World Fair of 1893 suggested a move to Chicago, as it did to thousands of other..grifters. |