chancer

plural chancers

1. IrelandUKslangA scheming opportunist.

   From then on, Emin became fixed in many minds as the drunken chancer who boasted about her promiscuity and called it art.

   2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   Actually, that's exactly what O'Dowd is doing in Get Shorty, presenting a taciturn thug with chewed up charm, a chancer pitching a movie in Hollywood.

   2018 June 6, Peter Crawley, “Get Shorty: Chris O’Dowd as a chewed-up, charming chancer”, in Irish Times, retrieved 29 Aug 2022