Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who fleeces or strips; one who takes by fraud or severe exactions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who fleeces; a swindler

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Examples

  • Reliable as always, he brought Flora and a bedsheet to the station, and drove away in the Land Rover with the well-wrapped picture and all my new climbing gear and paints and winter clothes (in duffle bag) and also my bagpipes, newly ransomed from the old fleecer, Donald Cameron, on his return from Inverness.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • For the basic intention of mapping a friends or professional network, it works, until you fall victim to a network fleecer, who rack up numbers of friends from others.

    Archive 2008-04-24 Jak Boumans 2008

  • For the basic intention of mapping a friends or professional network, it works, until you fall victim to a network fleecer, who rack up numbers of friends from others.

    Archive 2008-04-21 Jak Boumans 2008

  • For the basic intention of mapping a friends or professional network, it works, until you fall victim to a network fleecer, who rack up numbers of friends from others.

    Archive 2008-04-19 Jak Boumans 2008

  • For the basic intention of mapping a friends or professional network, it works, until you fall victim to a network fleecer, who rack up numbers of friends from others.

    Archive 2008-04-10 Jak Boumans 2008

  • This is a man who takes the modus operandi of the typical flock fleecer one step further than almost anyone else.

    Dr. Dino case resumes - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Reliable as always, he brought Flora and a bedsheet to the station, and drove away in the Land Rover with the well-wrapped picture and all my new climbing gear and paints and winter clothes (in duffle bag) and also my bagpipes, newly ransomed from the old fleecer, Donald Cameron, on his return from Inverness.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • I want you, you fleecer, to take the boots off me, a poor tramp.

    Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • And he was an equal-opportunity fleecer, bilking friends, family, charities, sports stars, fellow financiers, pension funds and people of modest -- and now, thanks to him, no -- means.

    ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community 2009

  • And he was an equal-opportunity fleecer, bilking friends, family, charities, sports stars, fellow financiers, pension funds and people of modest - and now, thanks to him, no - means.

    GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines 2009

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