Definition of "four-flusher" [four-flusher]

• A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one. (noun)

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• "Marshall meanwhile described Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. supreme commander in the southwest Pacific, as "never any good, always a four-flusher.""
• "Maybe you don't know how the creek turned out to be a four-flusher; but the prospects were good at the time, and Dave proceeded to build his cabin and hers."
• "Oh brother/sister, what about Dallas as ground zero to every type of evangelical four-flusher, evangelical tele-crook or the Copelands with matching his-n-her jets?"