GRIFTER

Grifter

Grifter is a fictional comic book character, a superhero in the Wildstorm Universe. He is best known as a member of Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S. and has since been revived as part of the DC Universe.

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grifter

Noun

  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.
    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.


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