grifter

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹɪftə/    美 /ˈɡɹɪftɚ/|/ˈɡɹɪftə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan. US,informal
    — We're all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel.
  2. 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. Internet,colloquial,especially
    — The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel underlined the increasingly delusional world the anti-hero inhabits, his fantasies fed and indulged by a cast of sycophants, lackeys and straight grifters, all in it for what they can get.
  3. A YouTuber or other content creator who produces low-effort content critiquing a particular franchise or trend, particularly content perceived as ragebait or done for monetary gain. Internet,derogatory
    — But with changing technology, criticism has entered a new era thanks to YouTube and live streaming. In the middle of all this growth is a pseudo-intellectual fungus which seems to be spreading rapidly. In my article about Box Office numbers I mentioned the phrase “grifter critic”.

词形变化

grifters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
grifterness

词源

From grift + -er; or probably an alteration of grafter (“a corrupt person, one who accepts bribes”), which is essentially a doublet of the same word. Originally circus slang (carny; compare shill of similar semantics), gradually widened in sense. First attested in 1906; popularized online circa late 2010s.
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