short con
short stuff

A short con is a fast swindle which takes just minutes.

When, in short, it was time to run a short con.

Short cons for the most part, bilking foolish marks and making a reasonable living.

He supports himself by using short con tricks.

Escaping to London, he became a master "dip", then moved up to the short con and mastered that as well.

They struggled to survive through the Great Depression, working short cons and traveling the country to seek work.

When Mickey was in jail Ash ran short cons.

In addition to one long con, each episode features a number of short cons played by the major characters on members of the public.

On his return to Denver, Smith opened new businesses that were nothing more than fronts for his many short cons.

It's a short con.

The short cons included the shell game, three-card monte, and any game in which they could cheat.

Instead, she just continued to stare, her head swiveling back and forth on her scrawny neck like the top of a short conning tower.

Roy Dillon: A 25-year-old short con operator.

Bunk then assists McNulty in picking up a woman in the bar through the use of a short con.

The pair runs a short con to steal copper pipes, which they sell to a contractor at "30 cents a foot" to make their next drug purchase.

Spanish Lotto is derived from two classic scams, the pigeon drop and the handkerchief switch, which are known as short cons because they can be done quickly.

Actually they weren't concerned with prostitution or its feeder vices, unlicensed clubs, bottle peddlers, petty larceny, short con and steering.

Their principal method of separating victims from their cash was the use of "short cons", swindles that were quick and needed little setup and few helpers.

The short cons demonstrate the seemingly endless array of tricks professional con men possess and the ease with which short cons can be played.

If white citizens wished to come to Harlem for their kicks, they had to take the venereal risks and the risks of short con or having their money stolen.

Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas.... And no one in his right mind would hit a Louisiana croaker.

Johnny persuades Bubbles to run a short con (the false good-Samaritan scam) with him to make money instead of reporting to Detective Kima Greggs.

It focuses on the subject of short cons (Three-Card Monte, Shell game, Fast and Loose), with students from the fields of magic, law enforcement, gambling, and history.

Hunley was equipped with two watertight hatches, one forward and one aft, atop two short conning towers equipped with small portholes and slender, triangular cutwaters.

"We wanted to give up the short stuff and take everything else away.

The idea was to get the running game going, the short stuff working to the backs and then air it out, as they say.

No more should we see him trying to be the enforcer with short stuff.

It is only good for short stuff, nothing long, but once learned works well considering the weight savings.

A long birdie putt for him, but he's on the short stuff.

"They were just getting a lot of short stuff.

They felt that was the area they had to take care of, so we hit the short stuff."

Short stuff by Young kept the ball moving.

Make a team earn its way with short stuff and sooner or later on a long drive it might self-destruct.

At midfield, however, a defense can seldom overload expecting short stuff.

The Jets strategy was to give Moon the short stuff under their coverage and not get beat deep.

"I already got me an elephant, short stuff.

The crowds are whooping well before the ball has reached the top of its apex, and it's safely on the short stuff.

I don't think he was any worse against the short stuff than, say, Steve Waugh.

"Are you here to bid on any of the 'short stuff'?"

"They're pouring short stuff into us," he reported stiffly to Aistair.

So what do you say, Short Stuff?

So, Irvin took the curls, the outs, the short stuff, and mixed in some long grabs, too, including one for 61 yards.

Gooch had much short stuff to content with.

In fact, several Philadelphia defensive coaches and players expressed mild surprise that the Giants did not use more short stuff.

This is short stuff; nobody cares much."

Throws the short stuff with precision.

Short stuff that went backward.

She lay on the bed and said, " Come up here, short stuff and lay down beside me. "

The first six bouncers disappeared to the rope, or over it, as Indian batsmen finally coped with the short stuff.