Grifter
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William Hupy
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Grifter
A swindler. Maybe a combination of grafter and drifter? Since grafter also means con man, maybe a grifter is a rootless swindler.
William A. Hupy
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Re: Grifter
Playing off the rootlessness, perhaps it's a portmanteau of graft and drifter?
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