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单词 money-dropper
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money-dropper
money-dropper n. Obsolete a confidence trickster who drops a piece of money and then pretends to have found it, in order to accost and gain the confidence of the intended victim; also in extended use.
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1737 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 617/1 In Former times, even Ministers of State were not ashamed to turn Money-droppers.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xv. 115 A rascally money-dropper, who made it his business to decoy strangers in that manner, to one of his own haunts.
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