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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of grift.

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Examples

  • Awww, poor Stupid242, he looks at the piles of money grifted from the working class and calls that “earned.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Is VAT an Idea Whose Time Has Passed? 2010

  • The apartment is paid in full by the club, which is really an after hours hangout for the grifted and the philosophically maimed.

    Big City 2010

  • I've cheated, copied and grifted my way through, but with the content of this exam, I'm better off faking the flu.

    Tracey D. Smith: 'Twas the Night Before Exams Tracey D. Smith 2010

  • I wonder if Mom grifted some ancestral heirloom or if it actually belongs to her.

    White Cat Holly Black 2010

  • No garage sale was left unplundered as they grifted their way across the country each summer, while we kids stayed down in the Pine Barrens with Grandad.

    White Cat Holly Black 2010

  • No garage sale was left unplundered as they grifted their way across the country each summer, while we kids stayed down in the Pine Barrens with Grandad.

    White Cat Holly Black 2010

  • I've cheated, copied and grifted my way through, but with the content of this exam, I'm better off faking the flu.

    Tracey D. Smith: 'Twas the Night Before Exams Tracey D. Smith 2010

  • I wonder if Mom grifted some ancestral heirloom or if it actually belongs to her.

    White Cat Holly Black 2010

  • Or faith-based organizations landing more and more hard-earned taxpayer dollars, including Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing, which grifted FEMA in the wake of Katrina's devastation.

    Scott Thill: Waking Up is Hard to Do 2008

  • There are also three flashback scenes -- Beth doing a bad pickup in a bar, Tim and Gina's "meet-cute" eight years ago involving guns, and then Aldis' flashback to the time he pretended to be the Rolling Stones -- the whole band -- and grifted the penthouse in a luxury hotel.

    Archive 2007-10-28 Rogers 2007

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