What's the difference between grifter and rifter?

Grifter


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  • (1) And the world is full of grifters, and the music business attracts grifters.
  • (2) Click here to listen to track The Dead Weather's new tracks are, they claim, "ample reminders of the ferocity of this motley collection of lowlifes, grifters and ne'er-do-wells".
  • (3) Let her explain… Sarah Manning Photograph: Allstar The London-born punk grifter and single mum at the heart of the cloning conspiracy "I love playing her most; she's my homegirl.
  • (4) Fort McMurray is more than an environmental hotspot, more than a metonymy for oil sands, more than a grail for jobseekers and grifters.
  • (5) Few of them – including his supporters – can look at Trump and see anything but a philandering, amoral grifter.
  • (6) When you're famous, then you automatically become what they call a "mark", a target for grifters.

Rifter


Definition:

  • (n.) A rafter.

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