Crossword clues for grifter
grifter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A con man. Someone who pulls confidence games.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Grifter (Cole Cash) is a fictional comic book superhero who has appeared in books published by Wildstorm Productions and DC Comics. Created by artist Jim Lee and writer Brandon Choi, he first appeared in WildC.A.T.s #1 (August 1992), as a member of that titular superhero team, during the period when Wildstorm and its properties were owned by Jim Lee. In that incarnation, Grifter is a former government operative and member of the military unit Team 7 and the espionage agency International Operations.
In 1999, Lee sold Wildstorm to DC Comics, and ownership of all Wildstorm characters, including Grifter, transferred to DC Comics. His backstory and continuity remained the same, however, until DC's 2011 relaunch of their entire comics line, The New 52, which rebooted the continuity for most of its characters. Since then, the character has starred in his own DC series, and has also made appearances in numerous other DC titles, such as Voodoo, Legion Lost, Team 7, Animal Man and Deathstroke.
The character was also a cast member in the 1994 - 95 animated TV series Wild C.A.T.s, in which he was voiced by Colin O'Meara.
Grifter commonly refers to:
- A practitioner of confidence tricks; one who befriends another to take advantage of them, or gain something from them.
Grifter may also refer to:
- Grifter (comics), fictional character created by Jim Lee for Wildstorm Comics and later incorporated into the DC Universe
- Grifters (band), a 1990s American indie rock band
- Raleigh Grifter, a bicycle manufactured by British company Raleigh from 1976 to 1983
- The Grifters (novel), a 1963 American novel by Jim Thompson, about a young con artist named Roy Dillon
- The Grifters (film), a 1990 American film adaption of the Thompson novel, starring John Cusack as Dillon
Usage examples of "grifter".
In a way, with some of the scores I took down, I was also a grifter, a con woman.
If either grifter were presently in Vancouver, it would have them pinpointed in less than a day.
There could be no more humiliating fate for a grifter than to have to pay the mark double.
She finished her coffee and drifted off, the picture of a young grifter looking for wallets to lift.
Don had no intention at all of buying it and he thought of telling the grifter that he considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cowbut he found that he had purchased it with his last coin.
Though it was a puzzlement to him how the daughter of a drifter and a grifter executed a one-eighty to become a small-town homebody, the fact that puzzles were his business made it, and her, only more interesting.
The small-town shopkeeper, the reformed grifter, the damsel in distress?
I fail to see how any federal court would be interested in an old carnival grifter using the profits from one business to start up or buy out another.
He made his living as a grifter, working with another god from his pantheon, a god of chaos and deceit.
Everyone had heard of the notorious Boston Beau, King of the Grifters, but we had never expected to see him trouping with our show.
And, as my faith in my nimble Pendiian eyes diminished, my respect for the grifters increased.
The two grifters went first up the steep narrow stairwell, out of an intuitive sense that they were still not fully trusted yet.
He might, for all Myrna or Johnson knew, have enlisted an entire army of grifters, grafters, hucksters and dips, who could communicate in ways even a thousand-year-old layman could not hope to grasp.
I know some theatrical agents I can call on and, of course, the Pinkertons keep files on grifters, bunko artists, and such, because they provide security at so many state fairs and such.
They naturally sent for other grifters to help them run their private town.