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Meaning of "grift" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRIFT

grift  [ɡrɪft] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRIFT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Grift is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRIFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grifter

Grifter commonly refers to: ▪ A practitioner of confidence tricks Grifter may also refer to: ▪ Grifter, fictional character created by Jim Lee for Wildstorm Comics and later incorporated into the DC Universe ▪ Grifters, a 1990s American indie rock band ▪ Raleigh Grifter, a bicycle manufactured by British company Raleigh from 1976 to 1983 ▪ The Grifters, a 1963 American novel by Jim Thompson, about a young con artist named Roy Dillon ▪ The Grifters, a 1990 American film adaption of the Thompson novel, starring John Cusack as Dillon...

Definition of grift in the English dictionary

The definition of grift in the dictionary is an act of obtaining money from someone by fraud.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRIFT


adrift
əˈdrɪft
drift
drɪft
festschrift
ˈfɛstˌʃrɪft
rift
rɪft
serifed
ˈsɛrɪft
seriffed
ˈsɛrɪft
shrift
ʃrɪft
snowdrift
ˈsnəʊˌdrɪft
spendthrift
ˈspɛndˌθrɪft
spindrift
ˈspɪnˌdrɪft
spoondrift
ˈspuːnˌdrɪft
stardrift
ˈstɑːˌdrɪft
strift
strɪft
thrift
θrɪft
unthrift
ʌnˈθrɪft

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRIFT

grievously
grievousness
griff
griffe
griffin
griffinish
griffinism
Griffith
Griffith-Joyner
griffon
grifter
grig
Grigioni
Grignard reagent
grigri
grike
Grikwa
grill
grill pan
grillade

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRIFT

airlift
continental drift
day shift
deadlift
face-lift
forklift
free gift
lift
longshore drift
makeshift
night shift
North Atlantic Drift
paradigm shift
shift
short shrift
sift
swift
swing shift
uplift
wage drift

Synonyms and antonyms of grift in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «grift» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRIFT

Find out the translation of grift to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of grift from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «grift» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

grift
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

grift
570 millions of speakers

English

grift
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

grift
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

grift
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Grift
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grift
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

grift
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grift
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Grift
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

grift
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

grift
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

grift
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Griff
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

grift
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிரெப்ட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झोंबाण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dolandırıcılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Grift
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Grift
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Grift
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Grift
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

grift
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Grift
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

grift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

grift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of grift

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRIFT»

The term «grift» is normally little used and occupies the 116.833 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRIFT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «grift» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «grift» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about grift

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRIFT»

Discover the use of grift in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to grift and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Grift Sense
While some people have a sixth sense, Tony has a grift sense—and he needs it now to separate a grifter from a scam that’s worse than anyone’s wildest dreams. . . . From the Paperback edition.
James Swain, 2003
2
The Grift: A Novel
After predicting a murder exactly as it happens, she becomes the sole suspect. Now she’s the desperate one—desperate to clear her name and to discover the meaning behind her visions. From the Hardcover edition.
Debra Ginsberg, 2008
3
Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
"Grift" is a word that showmen used to refer to all the forms of illegal and fraudulent money-making activities in the amusement world, including rigged games of chance, pickpocketing, and shortchanging (Inciardi and Petersen 1973;  ...
Robert Bogdan, 1990
4
Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New ...
Van der Grift, a ship captain and merchant who had been in New Amsterdam since 1647, was among the wealthiest citizens in town and had held the highest political office of burgomaster six times between 1657 and 1664. He became an ...
Joyce D. Goodfriend, 1994
5
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide.
Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, 2012
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Synopsis Aroidearum complectens enumerationem systematicam ...
201. K0.II8O. • • • Pythonium S. • bulbiferum S. ecaudatum Grift. Hookeri hniti. Walliehianum .V species Grift. II. p. 201 Ko. 1180. , , • ? species Grift. III. p 156. .... speeies Grift. II. p. /8.1 Ko. 941. , , • species Grift. II. p. 192 K0.IO4O , • , spedes Grift.
Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, 1856
7
The Dynamiter
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, 2007
8
The Dynamiter
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Fanny Van De Grift Stev Louis Stevenson, 2008
9
Spanish Arcadia
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Nellie Van De Grift Sanchez, John McCarthy, 2010
10
Hard-boiled Masculinities
For the grift narrative, as with the crime narratives of noir more generally, seems to suggest that, like Taylorist reorganizations of the factory floor, social relationships are reducible to economic relationships. In contrast to the crime narratives of ...
Christopher Breu, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRIFT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term grift is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Massachusetts STILL Susceptible to Immigrant Identity Fraud
... observer would commend Brewer for his creative ways earning a pretty penny, but there was nothing unique about this government grift. «Daily Caller, Jul 15»
2
Virginia Governor's Guide to Free Golf
Where they might find it reveals a political insider's grift: the Virginia Governor's Guide to Scoring Free Golf. Enter Adam Zubowsky, McDonnell's ... «PJ Media, Jul 15»
3
'A Hanging at Cinder Bottom' is an engaging, clever con
What follows is the story of how they got there, a tense tale of love, grift and an elaborate con. MORE: 23 fiction books you'll want to read -- and ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
4
Continental Grift
In the world of telecommunications, humor is at a premium. When you find laughs, they are most often unintended. That certainly was the case ... «Backchannel, Jul 15»
5
Daily Blotter
Three days later, he tried to pull off the same grift at two Bronx restaurants, law-enforcement sources said. It was not immediately clear if he ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
6
What It Means to Be Southern
Facing the great grift, our white ancestors accepted a corrupt deal that allowed them to be exploited just a little bit less than those we chose to ... «Chron.com, Jul 15»
7
This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy
Rindfleisch ended up in jail for having aided Walker in his steady grift up the food chain. The state's Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
8
Spoon Release Special Playing Cards
In other words, in addition to a game of Go Fish you can also use the Spoon cards to grift people or pull off some magic tricks. Spoon's playing ... «Exclaim!, Jul 15»
9
Is the Supreme Court Really About to Gut Public Sector Unions?
... who finance the grift. It was no accident that Scott Walker went after the public-school teachers in Wisconsin first. This is Walkerism writ large. «Esquire.com, Jun 15»
10
Rand Paul Somehow Uses the Gay Marriage Ruling to Attack Labor …
It's a clever grift, trying to convince conservative Christians that the only way to protect themselves from a coming onslaught of lawsuits and ... «The New Republic, Jun 15»

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