spieler

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: spiel=er

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spieler, n. sl.
1 esp. US a person who spiels.
2 Austral. a gambler; a swindler.

Etymology

G (as SPIEL)

THESAURUS

spieler

MC, auteur, ballyhoo man, ballyhooer, barker, bunco artist, bunco steerer, callboy, canvasser, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, cheater, con artist, con man, confidence man, costume designer, costumer, costumier, crimp, debater, declaimer, defrauder, demagogue, diddler, director, double-dealer, emcee, equestrian director, exhibitor, flimflammer, gypper, haranguer, horse coper, horse trader, impresario, jackleg, jawsmith, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, makeup man, master of ceremonies, mortgage shark, panelist, pettifogger, pitchman, playreader, producer, prompter, public speaker, rabble-rouser, ranter, ringmaster, scenewright, set designer, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, showman, shyster, slicker, solicitor, speaker, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spokesman, spokeswoman, spouter, stage director, stage manager, talker, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, tout, touter, tub-thumper, usher, usherer, usherette

ROGET THESAURUS

spieler

Thief

N thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier, piqueerer, pickeerer, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter, Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman, Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, Dillinger, Al Capone, Robin Hood.

Deceiver

N deceiver &c (deceive), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin, bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber, saint abroad and a devil at home.