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Verb: grift  grift
Usage: N. Amer
  1. Deprive of by deceit
    "He grifted me out of my inheritance";
    - victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick [N. Amer], nobble [Brit], diddle, bunco [N. Amer], defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle [N. Amer], short-change, con, victimise [Brit], ream [N. Amer], bunko

Derived forms: grifted, grifts, grifting

Type of: cheat, chisel, rip off

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