{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY February 27, 2019---grift

WORD OF THE DAY February 27, 2019

grift    verb | GRIFT     Definition   1 : to obtain (money) illicitly (as in a confidence game)   2 :  to acquire money or property illicitly   Scroll down for more about grift      TRENDING NOW: Xhosa crosshair feckless emergency SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   7 Phrases That Are Just So Metal       When Body Parts Are Also Verbs     'Avuncular' — Video Word of the Day 2/26/2019       On 'Culminate' and 'Cumulate'         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   February 2019 Words of the Day Quiz   The "we still have another month of winter" quiz     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Grift was born in the argot of the underworld, a realm in which a "grifter" might be a pickpocket, a crooked gambler, or a confidence man—any criminal who relied on skill and wits rather than physical violence—and to be "on the grift" was to make a living by stings and clever thefts. Grift may have evolved from graft, a slightly older word meaning "to acquire dishonestly," but its exact origins are uncertain. We do know that the verb grift first finagled its way into print in the early 20th century, as demonstrated in George Bronson-Howard's 1915 novel God's Man, where it appears in gerund form: "Grifting ain't what it used to be. Fourteenth Street's got protection down to a system—a regular underworld tariff on larceny."     Examples of GRIFT   The guidebook warns that the city's con artists grift millions of dollars from unwary tourists annually.   "He's somebody that lived and grifted, lived for the day. As soon as he got any money from some shady deal or whatever he was involved in, he just spent it." — Richard E. Grant, quoted on Vox.com, 18 Oct. 2018   Test Your Vocabulary   Fill in the blanks to complete a word for the use of tricks especially to hide, avoid, or get something: s _ _ te _ f _ _e.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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