Grifting

Word GRIFTING
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈɡɹɪftɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Grifting"

What do we mean by grifting?

To obtain illegally, as by con game.

To obtain money illegally.

To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

(adj) shitting one's pants. Urban Dictionary

Horrible, not nice, Urban Dictionary

To have a good time, hang out, go to the beach, mess things up, and just have a good time. any or all of the above and more Urban Dictionary

A money-making operation that is either dishonest and takes advantage of people, or is simply a cause of annoyance or scorn to those who pay. Typically, a grift is a source of easy money to whoever runs it. Urban Dictionary

Grift (grft) Slang n. 1. Money made dishonestly, as in a swindle. 2. A swindle or confidence game. v. grift·ed, grift·ing, grifts, Grifter v.intr. To engage in swindling or cheating. v.tr. To obtain by swindling or cheating. Urban Dictionary

To steal something. Possibly a combination of gank and shifty. Only the most talented hobos can pull the grift off. Urban Dictionary

The art of grifting. Taking something that does not belong to you Urban Dictionary

An online side hustle that consists of expressing political opinions, usually right-wing, and then asking for financial support in order to continute to express those opinions. In this context, grift implies that either A) the opinions are just a performance (and not actually held by the speaker, so the grift is just an act to make money), or B) the need for financial support is significantly overstated, typically by stoking fears of being censored. Thus, a genuinely opinionated online presence with a small amount of support is not considered a grift. Urban Dictionary

To have gotten got ; to have been swindled Urban Dictionary

The art of cupping a fart with your hand and placing it in someones face "grifting" see also "cupcake" Urban Dictionary

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The word "grifting" in example sentences

Steal billions and trillion of dollars by grifting is rewarded with billion dollars bonuses? ❋ Unknown (2010)

This practice became known as grifting and its practitioners grifters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, Jay Leno is reportedly going to take the stand and say that he got a phone call from the accuser and they were kind of grifting for money allegedly. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And speaking of Hayworth, I may have been more right than I thought about that throwaway "grifting" comment yesterday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pat Robertson is just another typical rightwing reactionary superstition-ridden grifting neo-Confederate A-hole ❋ Unknown (2010)

My favourite is the second, Todd Jonas, an orphaned street kid like Hookman himself (by then, the "the" in the character's name had largely been dropped,) he survived by his wits, "hustling and grifting" until the Hookman took him in. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Whether it was parental influence or not - memories of her father's lamb roasts and of learning to cook by "opening old jars of stuff my mother had left behind in the pantry" - she gravitated to restaurants, working first as a dishwasher as a young teenager and then on to the line, with a stint as a grifting cocktail waitress thrown in for good measure. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Why am I not surprised that Vitter prefers a TV personality airhead and intellectual lightweight, whose strongest attribute is her shameless, opportunistic grifting over an intelligent, articulate communicator who has put together the greatest organizing campaign ever seen in American politics? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pat Robertson is just another typical rightwing reactionary superstition-ridden grifting neo-Confederate A-hole throwback. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's a provocative premise: In Fox's Lone Star, Bob Allen has been raised a Texas con man, grifting through life until he falls in love for real — twice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eager, meanwhile, is on his own, grifting and working the angles in the homeless underground, oblivious to the unfolding events which will force him to face the consequences of a crime, and a longing, which has haunted him for years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was then that I realized Jake Gyllenhall's pie plate was actually a monkey's paw, and that the mechanic had in fact passed the curse on to me by grifting me with the old "pie plate flim-flam." ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

Gary Coleman's divorced child bride sells pictures of his dead body and makes him wait, cold, in the morgue as she wends his will through the courts, grifting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sarah Palin is probably very jealous of Floyd's grifting superiority. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Count on the Palinistas to line up and defend the grifting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It comes down to him grifting the DSCC out of campaign funds they could use in other less ego-fueled races around the country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Did you see that dude? He [grifted] his pants! OMG, Sally is grifting her pants [too in] [band practice]! ❋ Texan_Pride (2017)

this [kebab] is grifting! ❋ Michael Homer (2006)

im [enjoy] grifting, its better than just [hanging out]. lets get [grifted]. ❋ Pb Chris (2011)

That politician’s non-profit organization is a total [grift]! This bag of chips I bought is only half full; I got [grifted]! Those grifters at the electric company raised our bill in a time of crisis. Anyone who offers to sell you sacred yeti body parts or photos of yeti tracks is [grifting] you. ❋ GottaHaveMyPete (2021)

Joe the [Gypsie] spent most of his life [grifting] in [Pasadena] ❋ DancingRonin (2013)

Dan [grifted] my [cookie]...and apparently my [wallet] as well. ❋ Question_nny (2005)

Taking [Amy] away from Joe is such a [grift] [move]. ❋ Holy Diver (2006)

She used to be an Instragram [influencer], but I think she wasn't [making money] on that. Now she just makes [flat earth] YouTube videos to grift. ❋ (2020)

“ [Bro], you just got [super] [fucking] Grifted” ❋ BigBootyHoles337 (2020)

Oh man, I just [grifted] [gloria], she's gonna be [smelling] ass for hours! ❋ Magaz (2009)

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