short con
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English
Noun
short con (plural short cons)
- A scam that can be performed in minutes or seconds, typically aiming to rob the victim of the money or valuables they carry on them.
- Coordinate term: long con
- 1990, Jim Thompson, Donald E. Westlake, The Grifters, spoken by Roy Dillon (John Cusack):
- It's up to me. I'm strictly short con. It's nothing but small time stuff. I can walk away from it anytime I want.
Further reading
- Eric Partridge (2005) “short con”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1736.
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