| 单词 | short con |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort con short con n. U.S. slang a small-scale confidence racket; also (with hyphen) attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > confidence trick > types of drop-game1785 ring-dropping1788 drop1819 pigeon dropping1850 sawdust game1872 pay-off1915 short con1932 hot seat1933 pigeon drop1937 1932 Detective Fiction Weekly 6 Feb. 126/1 Little tricks known as the ‘short con’. 1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 667 Short-con workers operate on a modest scale, and are usually content with whatever money the victim has on him at the time he is rooked. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It viii. 67 This was better than..any of the other short-con moments of which Grack had told. < as lemmas |
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