Grafter

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
  2. 2
    A corrupt person, one who receives graft.

    "If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would be unpopular. His popularity is proof that the people, as a whole, are honest."

  3. 3
    An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
  4. 4
    The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
  5. 5
    Someone who works in market stalls. slang
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  1. 6
    a hard worker who puts in long hours British, colloquial

Synonyms

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body snatcherboodlerboosterchicken thiefcon mancrook

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"If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would be unpopular. His popularity is proof that the people, as a whole, are honest."

Etymology

From graft + -er.

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