Meaning

1 senses
  1. (historical, slang)A con artist who operates a classic confidence trick involving the fraudster purposely dropping a supposedly valuable gold coin (or a fake purse of money) where a passerby would find it.

Forms

plural: gold-droppers
Singulargold-dropper
Pluralgold-droppers

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