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short con
noun
- any simple confidence game involving a relatively small amount of money.
Example Sentences
Parker, a carnival worker whose showmanship and talent for the short con earned him the nickname 鈥淭he Snowman,鈥 is portrayed as an Iago-like schemer who sees Presley as the ultimate geek, ripe for exploitation.
鈥淒efendants have chosen to deal with it in a classic Chicago political way 鈥 a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab,鈥 the lawsuit says.
But where Tim was only about the short con, Sizwe had schemes: If we do this, we get that, then we can flip that for the other thing, which gives us the leverage we need to get something bigger.
It鈥檚 also a bald-faced lie, a fake promise and a short con.
Chuck was originally invented just to give Jimmy someone to care about, a reason for being other than just the short con.
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