What is "steerer"

Usage examples of "steerer".

As they entered, brothel steerers, pushers, vendors, all manner of commission men and women and several beggars began yelling and importuning.

I watched a brazen team of lookouts and steerers selling crack on the far corner, beyond the projects.

In booths and at tables and the long bar were toothless bunco steerers, addict-pushers, and devious pimps.

To-day I know how it is that year after year, week after week, the bunco steerer, who is the confidence trick and the card-sharper man of other climes, secures his prey.