Definition of "grift" [grift]

• Money made dishonestly, as in a swindle. (noun)
• A swindle or confidence game. (noun)
• To engage in swindling or cheating. (verb-intransitive)
• To obtain by swindling or cheating. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "'' 'Confidence games' '' (also known as "grift") are [[criminal]] enterprises in which the"
• "He lent a certain grace to his grift, even value to whatever he grabbed."
• "This is the lady who keeps losing elections and who has set up a PAC as a grift operation to pay her rent?"