(US, slang) A confidence game or swindle.
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.
(US, slang) A confidence game or swindle.
Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?
“The Big $Grift. Where’s his campaign finder Dogeboy when you need him?”
“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.”
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(informal, originally, _, North America) A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.
(colloquial, especially, _, internet) A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity.
(slang, vulgar, transitive, rare) To behave in a superficially polite or charming way while simultaneously acting in a deceptive, manipulative, or harmful manner.
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.
“Why is this person surprised? Everything associated with Trump is a money grift. l.smartnews.com/p-7Ff03CLu/P...”
“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.”
“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.”
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(transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game.
“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…”
“Chris Mason would orgasm himself to death were Rayner to have committed the same filthy grift.”
“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.”
“This is the grift and what we are disgusted by !!! substack.com/@sullydawg2/...”
“this is how everything in the world is divided now, why would this grift be any different”
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(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally.
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