shlenter

plural shlenters · alternative schlenter · alternative slenter

1. A fake, especially a fake diamond.
2. A scam, ploy, fraud, trick.

   I did a shlenter. I went up to the girl while she was opening the gate and asked her to leave it open.

   2010, Peter Taylor, “Trip to Appelboskraal via Stadsaal”, in South African Trips

3. A scammer.

present singular third person shlenters · participle present shlentering · participle past shlentered · past shlentered · alternative schlenter · alternative slenter

1. raretransitiveTo acquire in an underhanded way.
2. raretransitiveTo scam, fool, deceive, trick.

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   In the time I spend at Rhodes I will encounter many brilliant minds and come to understand principles, strategies and tactics, caucusing, shlentering, back-stabbing, manipulation, campaigning, alliances – and I will also witness the depths of human determination and depravity, and the utter Shakespearean nature of it all.

   2016, Bridget Hilton-Barber, Student Comrade Prisoner Spy: A memoir

alternative schlenter · alternative slenter

1. not comparableFake, not genuine, counterfeit.

   "Of course," whispers the seller, who had pushed his way to the side of the buyer, "this sale was only shlenter."

   1899, Anna Dunphy Bremont, The Gentleman Digger

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   There was a good deal of talk on the about about certain racing men last evening publicly taking "shlenter" wages …

   1881 February 28, “Dunedin Races. Third Day.”, in North Otago Times, NZ, volume XXVIII, number 2713, page 2