grifter

English

Noun

grifter (plural grifters)

1. A con man. Someone who pulls confidence games.

   1939. "We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel". The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler

   1958. "That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode--the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew". That Hell-Bound Train. Robert Bloch