grift
(transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game.
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Born ~1906 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
The angry gamer right wing grift is easy on YouTube. But I can attest to the fact that there are huge portions of the audience who are tired of that shit and just want to find creators who are Normal.
What forced me out of DC honestly was the fact I got tired of the parking grift. I refuse to PAY to go into work. I refuse to PAY to park at the doctors office. No. Apartment was 2500 per month and parking was 125. No…
Chris Mason would orgasm himself to death were Rayner to have committed the same filthy grift.
Maga Mike shut down Congress again, this time so he can grift with tRumpf to rename the Palm Beach Airport the drumpf international airport, and ONLY allowed to sell tRumpf merchandise.
Why is this person surprised? Everything associated with Trump is a money grift. l.smartnews.com/p-7Ff03CLu/P...
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(transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game.
“The angry gamer right wing grift is easy on YouTube. But I can attest to the fact that there are huge portions of the audience who are tired of that shit and just want to find creators who are Normal.”
“What forced me out of DC honestly was the fact I got tired of the parking grift. I refuse to PAY to go into work. I refuse to PAY to park at the doctors office. No. Apartment was 2500 per month and parking was 125. No. Until society says to hell with all this…”
“The angry gamer right wing grift is easy on YouTube. But I can attest to the fact that there are huge portions of the audience who are tired of that shit and just want to find creators who are Normal.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“What forced me out of DC honestly was the fact I got tired of the parking grift. I refuse to PAY to go into work. I refuse to PAY to park at the doctors office. No. Apartment was 2500 per month and parking was 125. No. Until society says to hell with all this…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Chris Mason would orgasm himself to death were Rayner to have committed the same filthy grift.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This is the grift and what we are disgusted by !!! substack.com/@sullydawg2/...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“this is how everything in the world is divided now, why would this grift be any different”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US, slang) A confidence game or swindle.
“The Big $Grift. Where’s his campaign finder Dogeboy when you need him?”
“Maga Mike shut down Congress again, this time so he can grift with tRumpf to rename the Palm Beach Airport the drumpf international airport, and ONLY allowed to sell tRumpf merchandise.”
“Why is this person surprised? Everything associated with Trump is a money grift. l.smartnews.com/p-7Ff03CLu/P...”
Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?
“Maga Mike shut down Congress again, this time so he can grift with tRumpf to rename the Palm Beach Airport the drumpf international airport, and ONLY allowed to sell tRumpf merchandise.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Why is this person surprised? Everything associated with Trump is a money grift. l.smartnews.com/p-7Ff03CLu/P...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“What a disgrace - the Dutch government are trying to remove the charity status of Extinction Rebellion, but have also accepted the far-right Fascists of Civitas Christiana as a charity. It's all a grift and it's about getting Lambo's for these guys.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“what makes this an obvious grift is that if they think we need to migrate to mars bc earth will be uninhabitable, good news! it is much easier to keep earth a habitable paradise than make mars even remotely survivable.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The Big $Grift. Where’s his campaign finder Dogeboy when you need him?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally.
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