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Newguest Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Con man/con artist

Hi

Does these two mean the same as a "cheat"?

For example when we were playing cards one of the players was cheating. Can I say he is a "con artist"?

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A con man, con artist, grifter, hustler [though this sometimes can also mean male prostitute, usu. homosexual], bun[c/k]o man, scammer, swindler, or flim-flammer is a person who makes their living by deceiving others and taking their money or goods by deception . Your average cheater in a card game is probably an opportunistic cheater, not a con man.

— CSnyder

  • A con man, con artist, grifter, hustler [though this sometimes can also mean male prostitute, usu.
  • homosexual], bun[c/k]o man, scammer, swindler, or flim-flammer is a person who makes their living by deceiving others and taking their money or goods by deception .
  • Your average cheater in a card game is probably an opportunistic cheater, not a con man.
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A con man, con artist, grifter, hustler [though this sometimes can also mean male prostitute, usu. homosexual], bun[c/k]o man, scammer, swindler, or flim-flammer is a person who makes their living by deceiving others and taking their money or goods by deception. Your average cheater in a card game is probably an opportunistic cheater, not a con man.
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Con man is short for confidence man. Someone that gets you to trust them, then steals your money.
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So if someone wants to sell me something and says that it is of great quality but later it turns out that he sold me some trash, can I then call such a person a con artist?
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You can call him a liar and a cheat but if he's still in town after he cheated you he's not likely to be a con artist; con artists don't stick around.
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Ok, so if he sold me some trash and then left the town so that I would never see him again, then I could call such a person a con man or a con artist.
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The terms con artist and con man are typically used in sales and business-type scams, like swindles and pyramid schemes. They are not used to describe card cheats. Card playing has its own jargon for cheats: card cheat, mechanic, four-flusher, card sharper, etc.
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